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From: kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: Moderation of news.admin
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Date: 21 Sep 88 22:25:38 GMT
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lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) writes:
>Recently, news.admin has contained messages in it that would make a
>mud throwing contest seem civilized.  [...] I suggest that moderation is 
>the ultimate fulfillment of that need [of keeping out the "mud"].

Except it only looks like mud :-(.  Moderation, my favorite word (well, at
least in the top ten).  I agree that we need to keep the drek out of the
news.* groups, especially news.admin and news.sysadmin.  (actually I would
like to see the drek taken out of all the groups, but that is another
discussion).

>The moderation would be of the losest [sic] level, [...]

I would guess just having the 'guard at the door' will probably eliminate the 
noise, and if not, the noise would still be low enough to be easy to filter.

>If no one else, I will volenteer [sic] to moderate.  Note this is a call
>for discussion.  If there is sufficient interest, I'll call for votes.

Count this as a vote for being interested, I may even vote for Eliot :-)!

-- 
Ken Wallich 			 	
Ardent Computer Corp			uunet!ardent!kmw
Sunnyvale, California, USA		"Slimey? Mud hole? My HOME this is!"