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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.sources
Subject: Re: As long as we are taliking about rmgrouping ...
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 14:32:25 EST
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In article <5647@amdcad.UUCP> jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) writes:
>The problem with mod.anything has always been that the moderator
>'evaluates' the posting. 

That's not a problem, that's a feature.

>What happened to 'the free interchange of ideas'. 

Free interchange of garbage and flames is more like it. We're trying to
increase the ratio of ideas to garbage. I *love* mod.sources. Net.sources
is much less useful.

>Can't you gurus come
>up with a mechanism of control which does not depend on your placing
>people of your choice in a position of power to control the flow of 
>ideas and expressions to the rest of us out here?

You could always volunteer to become a moderator.
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