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- From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
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- Subject: Re: Rec.arts.cinema : rmgroup?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.190115.12558@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:01:15 GMT
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- In <1992Dec28.133402.15296@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
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- >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've crossposed a couple of the 'rmgroup' posts to rec.arts.cinema as
- well. No signs of life.
-
- >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.
-
- If my memory serves, you can send out a control message with a new
- moderator with somewhat better results, can't you? I seem to remember this
- coming up during the recent discussion of rec.arts.erotica.
-
- >I think it might be a good idea to find out exactly where he or she
- >went and, if it turns out that the moderator really has given up, rmgroup
- >rec.arts.cinema. Then, if people really *do* want a moderated
- >movie/cinema newsgroup, they can go through the regular discussion and
- >voting process any new group would follow.
-
- I don't really agree. I like having a moderated cinema newsgroup and one
- exists. It seems clear that a number of people have been posting to
- rec.arts.cinema with no success so a demand exists as well.
- (It just took us awhile to realize it wasn't a local problem...)
- Why not just fix it and avoid an un-needed vote?
-
- -Geoff
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