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From: John_M@spectrix.UUCP (John Macdonald)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: Poll: Should all Usenet newsgroups be moderated?
Summary: put all unmoderated into talk
Keywords: Usenet, newsgroup, moderate
Message-ID: <690@spectrix.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 88 14:39:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: spectrix.690
References: <3220@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: jmm@spectrix.UUCP (John Macdonald)
Organization: Spectrix Microsystems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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>The question at hand is:
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>Should all Usenet newsgroups be moderated?
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Mostly.

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.
Members of the current hierarchy that can't find a moderator would
be put in an appropriate place (usually their current group with
talk prepended).

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.
-- 
John Macdonald   UUCP:    {mnetor,utzoo}             !spectrix!jmm