Xref: utzoo news.admin:3485 news.groups:5437 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!fsc2086!jim From: jim@fsc2086.UUCP (Jim O'Connor) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: Moderation of news.admin Summary: moderating might help Message-ID: <254@fsc2086.UUCP> Date: 22 Sep 88 22:32:22 GMT References:Organization: Filtration Sciences Corp., Chattanooga, TN Lines: 34 In 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. After looking at my newsgroups file to check what the purpose of "news.admin" is, I have to agree. lib/newsgroups says news.admin is for "comments directed to news administrators". I am guessing that these comments would best serve the readers of news.admin if they were presented as advice/instruction/information about administering their systems. I am a realtively new administrator and I have been reading news.admin looking for just these types of articles and have found little that applies. Moderating news.admin to keep the discussion within this scope should be possible. Anything not qualifying for news.admin could be directed to news.misc, which MIGHT be the more appropriate place for the Portal discussions going on. > If no one else, I will volenteer to moderate. Note this is a call > for discussion. If there is sufficient interest, I'll call for votes. > > Eliot > -- > Eliot Lear > [lear@net.bio.net] My two bits on this is that I think the moderator should be an experienced news administrator (I know I don't qualify). If Eliot fits the description, he has my support. --- James B. O'Connor +1 615 821 4090 x651 Filtration Sciences Corp. UUCP: uunet!fsc2086!jim 105 West 45th Street or jim@fsc2086.UU.NET Chattanooga, TN 37411