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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: What happens when posting to the new mod.* groups
Message-ID: <508@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 00:52:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 00:52:24 1985
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> This is a perfect example of why it was a dumb idea to convert the fa groups
> into mod groups. info-applebus is not a moderated group, it is an ARPAnet
> mailing list with a "mail reflector".
> 
> Whenever you try to make one thing masquerade as something it's not, whether
> it has to do with computers or with cutlery, people are going to be fooled.
> A group with the name "mod.xxx" should have a moderator, and many (most) of
> these ARPAnet groups do not have moderators.

Unfortunately, only very small communities of the USENET communities
knew how to back mail to submit to fa.* groups.  Mod.* things were
a known quantity.

However, this was all discussed before, and people knew before hand that
this was likely to happen.

-Ron