Xref: utzoo news.admin:3439 news.groups:5406 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!voder!tolerant!jane From: jane@tolerant.UUCP (Jane Medefesser) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: Moderation of news.admin Message-ID: <2728@tolerant.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 17:22:47 GMT References:Reply-To: jane@tolerant.UUCP (Jane Medefesser) Organization: Slobbering Systems, Inc. Lines: 23 In article lear@NET.BIO.NET (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. Well I'll vote YES for moderation - at the worst, it will cut down on a lot of inappropriate cross-posting (a la MES) that don't really belong here. I'll even further my vote to include moderation of news.sysadmin as well. For the people who want to continue to flame or cross-post to news.admin, perhaps we can create a new group, a subgroup of news.admin called news.admin.bullshit or news.admin.whocares.... ============================================ (*Look, ma - no offensive quotes!!!*) Jane Medefesser uucp: {pyramid,mordor,oliveb,ucbvax}!tolerant!jane Usenet Administrator Tolerant Systems San Jose, Ca 95134