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- From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese)
- Subject: Re: Soc.Motss.* / Automoderation.
- Message-ID: <BzLpMK.M5K@queernet.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:44:43 GMT
- References: <1h0jbbINNk0@smurf.sti.com> <1992Dec20.223503.4350@reed.edu> <1992Dec21.063607.23298@netcom.com>
- Organization: QueerNet
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- In article <1992Dec21.063607.23298@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec20.223503.4350@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- >writes:
- >>
- >>No, the problem with automoderation is that it's a technical
- >>nightmare. It would require all postings to soc.motss to be channeled
- >>through one machine: the moderator's. You've just turned the random
- >>graph of Usenet into a hierarchical tree. If that one machine is down,
- >>or a piece of the network is gone, then parts of motss aren't propagated.
- >
- >That's the case with any moderated group, and people seem to be able to
- >live with it.
-
- Most moderated groups are low-volume and low-immediacy, neither of which
- applies to this group.
-
- All this jabber and conspiracy seems like an awful lot of effort to go to
- to get rid of a few minor annoyances. In fact, I'm not sure I'd want to
- face a net, or a soc.motss, without a Clayton or two.
- --
- ROGER B.A. KLORESE +1 415 ALL-ARFF
- rogerk@unpc.QueerNet.ORG {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!sgiblab!unpc!rogerk
- "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
- -- J. Foster
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