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- From: Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM (Richard M. Mathews)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,news.groups
- Subject: Re: sci.physics.research: proposed panel of moderators
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 20:51:17 GMT
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- MRG3@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt) says:
- >>I reject DB as a moderator I suggest another should be chosen.
- >>My reason is that based on Mr. Bass' contribution to this group
- >>I find that his posts are more noise than signal.
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- >Well, I accept Dale Base as a moderator....
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- >Surely there will be a (limited) appeal process for rejected articles
- >in the new newsgroup. That should satisfy any concerns about a
- >particular moderator's predispositions.
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- I am not so worried that DB might reject good articles as I am that he
- will let through garbage. Of 10 postings by DB currently sitting in our
- news spool, I count only 2 which I would consider on topic but not endless
- rehashing.
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