Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!upba!eecae!fmsrl7!wayne From: wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc,news.stargate,news.sysadmin,news.admin Subject: Re: the USENET problems Message-ID: <928@fmsrl7.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 17:20:27 EDT Article-I.D.: fmsrl7.928 Posted: Tue Jul 14 17:20:27 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jul-87 02:04:12 EDT References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <15982@gatech.gatech.edu> Reply-To: wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP (/\/\ichael R. \/\/ayne) Distribution: na Organization: Ford Motor Company, Scientific Research Labs, Dearborn, MI Lines: 41 Keywords: Moderated groups Xref: utgpu news.groups:1148 news.misc:643 news.stargate:225 news.sysadmin:273 news.admin:619 I have given the moderation problem a bit of thought and think I may have a solution. Since I am not a moderator, nor am I a backbone site, I expect there to be flaws in this. It is an initial proposal and needs work to complete. When a user posts an article to a "moderated" group, the article is actually posted to an unmoderated group that a limited number of sites carry. This would flood a small number of sites with the article, giving it a better chance to make it to the moderator. The moderation approved message could then cause the article to be transferred from the one group to the other, maintaining the article ID. At this point it would go out as a "normal" moderated article. Benefits: 1) Any site that is willing to carry the traffic can have access to the unmoderated information. 2) The moderator will have a better chance of getting the article. 3) Anyone will be able to post to the unmoderated group. 4) The posting interface remains constant. Problems: 1) Software will have to be rewritten. 2) Noise level may go up in some groups. 3) People will have to understand that there is an unmoderated newsgroup and a seperate, collected, subset group. 4) Every moderated group would require an associated unmoderated group. Think it over. Comment. Critique. Looks like it solves most of the problems I've seen people complain about. The noise will be in the unmoderated group, not in the moderated one. Readers can get ALL important info by reading the moderated group (not worrying about missing stuff) but anyone may look at the unmoderated if s/he so chooses. /\/\ \/\/ -- Michael R. Wayne *** TMC & Associates *** Arpa: wayne@ford-vax.arpa uucp: {philabs | pyramid} !fmsrl7!wayne OR wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP