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- Subject: Re: Soc.Motss.* / Automoderation.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.195224.551@news.wesleyan.edu>
- From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
- Date: 20 Dec 92 19:52:23 EDT
- References: <1992Dec15.190827.24034@spdcc.com> <1h0dpbINNfp@smurf.sti.com> <1h0jbbINNk0@smurf.sti.com> <1992Dec20.223503.4350@reed.edu>
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- In <1992Dec20.223503.4350@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu writes:
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- > 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.
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- Forgive me for jumping into a discussion I haven't been following, but I don't
- think this is correct. For example, soc.feminism is moderated by a team of 3
- moderators. If one is gone, on vacation, too busy, or equipment impaired, the
- other 2 just take over until the problem is solved. I'm not sure how this is
- accomplished technically, but it probably wouldn't be hard to find out.
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- Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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