Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbosgd!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Announcement of unmoderated sources mailing list. Message-ID: <2602@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 20:07:13 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.2602 Posted: Tue Jun 9 20:07:13 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 08:01:09 EDT References: <965@vortex.UUCP> <7946@utzoo.UUCP> <7947@utzoo.UUCP> <247@brandx.rutgers.edu> <390@hqda-ai.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 44 Xref: mnetor news.groups:1027 comp.sources.d:855 As quoted from <390@hqda-ai.UUCP> by merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes): +--------------- | It is indeed unfortunate that we are now left with no | unmoderated sources groups. Bob has shown us a new view on | getting unmoderated sources back -- go through the new group | creation process. | | Send your votes for comp.sources.unmod to Bob (or me, I'll | pass them on). Better yet, sign up for Bob's mailing list. Your | action in support of the Source Liberation Front is more valuable | than your vote for it. +--------------- Were I to unmoderate comp.sources.misc right now, the ensuing flamage would be more voluminous that the flamage about it being moderated. I *do* remember the constant flames about garbage in net.sources, guys! The ensuing flames would also be more polite. (Cf. <48@bigtuna.UUCP>.) People, we (meaning the moderators and the backbone) can't please everyone. An unmoderated sources newsgroup will be 90% discussion & flames, same as net.sources was for the entire time that I subscribed to it (3 years now). And the flames will, as in the case of net.sources, be about how there is so much noise in the newsgroup and how *it should be moderated* to get rid of the noise. (Educate the users? C'mon! Net.sources tried to educate the users for *how* *long*?) -- BTW -- I have stopped testing stuff to comp.sources.misc, since getting stuff out FAST is more important than getting it out RIGHT in this case. Don't bother to flame me about it; I'm not listening, as it's d*mned certain that some vocal minority will yell no matter what is done with comp.sources.misc, including if it is unmoderated. ++Brandon -- Copyright (C) 1987 Brandon S. Allbery. Redistribution permitted only if the redistributor permits further redistribution. ---- Moderator for comp.sources.misc ---- Brandon S. Allbery {decvax,cbosgd}!cwruecmp!ncoast!allbery aXcess Company {ames,mit-eddie,talcott}!necntc!ncoast!allbery 6615 Center St. #A1-105 necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.HARVARD.EDU Mentor, OH 44060-4101 +01 216 974 9210 (also eddie.MIT.EDU)