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- From: rlm@surfcty.com (Robert McMillin)
- Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: Rec.arts.cinema : rmgroup?
- Keywords: Hello! McFly!
- Message-ID: <NuHiwB1w165w@surfcty.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 13:35:58 PST
- References: <1992Dec28.133402.15296@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
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- > In article <28153@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
- > >You propose rmgrouping a group because as of now in your newsreader
- > >it has no posts? Sheesh. BTW, might you consider posting to
- > >rec.arts.movies also to let them know what you're up to? I'd expect
- > >that some folks there may have input since I would assume that
- > >they helped bring it about in the first place. Maybe we ought to
- > >get rid of alt.cult.movies too since that's redundant too huh?
- >
- > Sorry to inject some facts into this discussion, but it should be pointed
- > out that rec.arts.cinema is a moderated group, and that no posts seem to
- > have appeared for quite some time. I posted to it a month ago and my post
- > never appeared. I tried again today; we'll see what happens.
- >
- > I wonder how many moderated groups are out there where the moderator has
- > just given up, left, lost net access, etc. etc. etc? There've been
- > several threads over the past year saying "this group is moderated, but my
- > posts never appear, in fact, NO posts every appear, what can we do?" And
- > nothing ever gets done because, in fact, this seems to bring up some
- > problems with unmoderating newsgroups that sound mystic and arcane to all
- > and sundry. I can't recall any moderated newsgroup that's lost its
- > moderator emerging from the discussion with a new moderator or with
- > unmoderated status.
- >
- > If memory serves, there is no way to "unmoderate" a newsgroup effectively,
- > since some news software programs out there won't ever acknowledge it and
- > CAN'T acknowledge it. David Lawrence has said that basically what you
- > have to do is rmgroup the group and then make a new one if people want.
- > In this case, I think that might be well advised.
-
- Yes indeedy. I haven't seen any posts on this group now for ages (since
- June!). This group should be restarted unmoderated. (How lame that
- some people's mail readers can't handle a change from moderated to un-.)
- Good luck!
-