Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!amdahl!drivax!holloway From: holloway@drivax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: EndOfSourcesList+AnnouncementOfNetOmbudsman Message-ID: <2015@drivax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 14:02:12 EDT Article-I.D.: drivax.2015 Posted: Wed Jul 8 14:02:12 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 16:17:09 EDT References: <267@brandx.rutgers.edu> <1610@celtics.UUCP> <275@brandx.rutgers.edu> <2778@ncoast.UUCP> Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) Organization: Digitalis Research, Inc. Lines: 39 In article <2778@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes: >By whom, Mr. Webber? I have proof (email) that the majority of people prefer >having only moderated sources groups. The MAJORITY, defined as > 50%, not >something you can argue around. If you'd like I'll mail you my collected >email and some statistics. (82K mail file, mostly short messages) Getting votes for anything is useless. I'm surprised people even count the votes when proposing changes - people who are FOR a proposal are FAR more likely to send in a vote than those against. I can't think of even the most unlikely group where "yea" votes haven't outstripped "neas". Divide the number of "yes" votes by a hundred or so before compating them. And add a "nea" vote for moderated source groups, and a "yea" (really, 1/100 of a "yea" B-) for an unmoderated source group. I don't care if my programs don't get archived, I just want to see them out there. I sent several programs to comp.sources.games. After waiting several weeks, it became clear to me that I wasn't going to see them in the newsgroup, and this after spending a good amount of time making sure that inews sent them to the correct moderator (well, to ames). I never got the mail bounced back, leastways. Anyway. I became so frustrated that I just posted it to the newsgroup myself, using the "Approved" field trick. Now THAT got a response. But more importantly, the game got out - all I ever really wanted. So, once I thought I had the moderators attention, I sent another source to the newsgroup. And it hasn't shown up yet, and it has to have been at least a month. Maybe moderation can work, maybe this is an isolated incident, or the connection is failing somewhere - who can tell? If there were an unmoderated sources group, I could just post to THAT and know it was getting out. And I never minded all the other discussions, either. - Bruce -- Bruce Holloway - Terminal Netnews Addict {seismo,sun}!amdahl!drivax!holloway ALBATROSS, ATARI*TROS @ Plink ALBATROSS @ Delphi >>> HI, KARL! <<<