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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
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Posted: Tue Jun  9 20:07:13 1987
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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
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