Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!ucsd!ames!zodiac!confusion!cbunjiov From: cbunjiov@confusion.ads.com (Charleen Bunjiovianna) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: Moderation of news.admin Keywords: Lysergic lemonade Message-ID: <5540@zodiac.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 13:29:37 GMT References:<2728@tolerant.UUCP> <155@carpet.WLK.COM> <54460RWC102@PSUVM> Sender: news@zodiac.UUCP Reply-To: cbunjiov@ads.com (Charleen Bunjiovianna) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300 Lines: 29 In article <54460RWC102@PSUVM> RWC102@PSUVM (R. W. F. Clark) writes: >In article <155@carpet.WLK.COM>, bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) says: >> >>When I cross-posted to news.admin and news.sysadmin one time I was politely >>informed that news.admin was for news administrators and that news.sysadmin >>was news for system administrators. Admittedly they are frequently the same >>person, but often they are decidedly different. The person who reminded me >>added that the mistake I made was commonplace. > >To state that news.admin and news.sysadmin are reserved _for_ >administrators is not technically correct. Both groups are >reserved for comments directed _to_ the respective sort of >admins. As someone who's looking forward to using news.admin as a resource when she sets up her own net site (meanwhile saving for that 130meg hard disk of my dreams), may I make a suggestion? Rather than go through the process of voting on and installing a moderator, why not draft a monthly introduction posting that sets out a few simple guidelines? I would suggest something along the lines of John Haugh's article in misc.jobs.misc, which yours truly shamelessly ripped off and adapted for use in soc.men, where it seems to work pretty well. If _that_ doesn't succeed in holding down the noise level, then let's talk moderation. Charleen