Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site teddy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!talcott!panda!teddy!jpn From: jpn@teddy.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: As long as we are taliking about rmgrouping ... Message-ID: <1587@teddy.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 09:38:59 EST Article-I.D.: teddy.1587 Posted: Tue Nov 5 09:38:59 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:20:20 EST References: <5647@amdcad.UUCP> <476@brl-sem.ARPA> <5771@amdcad.UUCP> Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 20 >>> The problem with mod.anything has always been that the moderator >>> 'evaluates' the posting. ... >>> >>> What happened to 'the free interchange of ideas'. >> >>These arguemnts just do not hold water for the sources groups. >>The source groups are by definition, not discussion groups ... > >Someone posted bgrep. A few days later someone posted bm, a better >implementation of the same algorithm. > >Isn't that an interchange of ideas? I would just like to point out that both bgrep and bm were posted to MOD.sources. Therefore it is obvious that moderation of a sources newsgroup does NOT preclude the kind of interaction discussed!!!! John P. Nelson, Moderator, mod.sources (decvax!genrad!panda!jpn seismo!harvard!wjh12!panda!jpn)