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From: jim@fsc2086.UUCP (Jim O'Connor)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: Moderation of news.admin
Summary: moderating might help
Message-ID: <254@fsc2086.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 88 22:32:22 GMT
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Organization: Filtration Sciences Corp., Chattanooga, TN
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In  Eliot Lear writes:
> Recently, news.admin has contained messages in it that would make a
> mud throwing contest seem civilized.  Most of it has stemmed from
> the discussion of Portal.  Many have pointed out that the need for
> nettiquette.  I suggest that moderation is the ultimate fulfillment of
> that need.

After looking at my newsgroups file to check what the purpose of "news.admin"
is, I have to agree.  lib/newsgroups says news.admin is for "comments directed
to news administrators". I am guessing that these comments would best serve the
readers of news.admin if they were presented as advice/instruction/information
about administering their systems.  I am a realtively new administrator and I
have been reading news.admin looking for just these types of articles and have
found little that applies. Moderating news.admin to keep the discussion
within this scope should be possible.  Anything not qualifying for news.admin
could be directed to news.misc, which MIGHT be the more appropriate place for
the Portal discussions going on.

> If no one else, I will volenteer to moderate.  Note this is a call
> for discussion.  If there is sufficient interest, I'll call for votes.
> 
> Eliot
> -- 
> Eliot Lear
> [lear@net.bio.net]

My two bits on this is that I think the moderator should be an experienced
news administrator (I know I don't qualify).  If Eliot fits the description,
he has my support.
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