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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
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Date: 29 Jun 88 17:31:49 GMT
References: <3220@s.cc.purdue.edu> <690@spectrix.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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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)