Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!udel!princeton!njin!aramis.rutgers.edu!porthos.rutgers.edu!webber From: webber@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: talk.* =? net.* (Re: Poll: Should all Usenet newsgroups be moderated?) Keywords: Usenet, newsgroup, moderate Message-ID:Date: 29 Jun 88 17:31:49 GMT References: <3220@s.cc.purdue.edu> <690@spectrix.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 16 In article <690@spectrix.UUCP>, John_M@spectrix.UUCP (John Macdonald) writes: < Specifically, I think that all groups outside of talk should be < moderated. The talk hierarchy should be expanded to include at least < talk.comp.misc, talk.rec.misc, talk.soc.misc, and talk.sci.misc. < ... < This would make it simple for administrators who feel that unmoderated < groups are too noisy and unpredictable to be worth carrying can easily < drop them, while administrators who enjoy the unrestricted free flow < of information can keep them. Just out of curiousity, do you realize that your proposal means that talk.* would de facto be the old net.* and the rest of the net would be various descendants of mod.*. I guess we can add you to the list of people who opposed the ``Great Renaming Fiasco.'' ---- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)