Xref: utzoo news.admin:3460 news.groups:5426 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ubvax!ardent!kmw From: kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: Moderation of news.admin Message-ID: <600@ardent.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 22:25:38 GMT References:Reply-To: kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich) Organization: Ardent Computer Lines: 25 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!"