Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!rissa
From: rissa@chinet.UUCP (Patricia O Tuama)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: Moderation of news.admin
Message-ID: <6655@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 88 15:49:49 GMT
References:  <2728@tolerant.UUCP> <155@carpet.WLK.COM>
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In article <155@carpet.WLK.COM> bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:
>            I think we could moderate it ourselves by making these groups
>a less fun place to play, i.e. just `n' a lot and `F' (having just done so
>myself) a lot less.  If it's no fun to play, the players will move to more
>entertaining haunts.  We control these groups if we want to, how many flame
>wars have you seen in (if you read it) comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt?  It's entirely
>up to us.  If we react we make it fun and those not amused want to puke.
>If we ignore, it's not fun and we can get back to the dreary business of
>news administration.

You are missing the point entirely.  No one posts to news.admin to be
entertained.  The reason we posted to this newsgroup was because it is
read by sysadmins.  Obviously the power behind Usenet resides here.  
And if you want to address sysadmins as a whole on a particular issue, 
this is obviously the place to post.

A number of netters seem to be under the impression that this Portal biz
is very recent, that it began in alt.flame in just the last month or so.  
But it isn't a recent problem, this has been building in a number of news.
groups for at least the last three or four months.  It didn't *start* in 
alt.flame, it ended up in alt.flame.

				at that point trish, concerned