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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: Moderation of news.admin
Summary: PLEASE MODERATE NEWS.ADMIN AND NEWS.SYSADMIN
Message-ID: <4076@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 12:28:48 GMT
References:  <9359@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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I think news.admin and news.sysadmin should both be moderated so that
the moderator can (a) keep articles meant for news administrators in
news.admin, (b) keep articles meant for system administrators in
news.sysadmin, and (c) divert the rest to either news.misc or junk.

Further, I think it would be a good idea to rename news.admin to
news.newsadmin, so "newsadmin" and "sysadmin" are clearly seen as an
analogous pair of newsgroups, one for news administrators and for sys
administrators.

I think it's ridiculous to claim that moderation is akin to
censorship.  Censorship is done by government.  Material that is
censored cannot be published in any forum except by risking a prison
sentence.  Moderation simply serves to keep the junk out of certain
places, and it doesn't prevent it from being published in other
places.

The original "serious dilemma" article about Portal did belong in
news.admin.  Some of the follow-ups did too.  Many of the follow-ups
didn't.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi