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From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Mod. for the rest of the world (was:Results of "moderation poll")
Summary: it cuts it off
Keywords: poll, moderation, newsgroups
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Date: 8 Aug 88 10:00:52 GMT
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>7. Moderated groups suffer from several problems; here are a few.

>1. Mail delays; mail misrouting and failure. 

It's worse than that outside of N. America.  Most Europeans are forbidden to
mail to America.  Even those who are allowed to often don't get through.
E.g., my comment and vote didn't get through, and I am unusually
well-connected for England, and I assume the vote-taker was reasonably
well-connected.

Moderation will cut off contributions from most people in most of the rest
of the world.

From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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