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From: romkey@asylum.SF.CA.US (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: IN MODERATION NETWORK
Message-ID: <2481@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 13 Jun 89 05:43:26 GMT
References: <1097@fernwood.MPK.CA.US> <1989Jun6.111130.20332@ateng.ateng.com> <2451@asylum.SF.CA.US> <1989Jun12.100804.24166@ateng.ateng.com>
Reply-To: romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey,The Asylum)
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In article <1989Jun12.100804.24166@ateng.ateng.com> chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>I understand the concept of selling an editing service.  I simply don't
>believe that the In Moderation people can charge for forwarding articles
>that the recipient doesn't already have and call that an "editing service".

I think the value in the service is in the messages *not* forwarded -
the volume reduced, the summarizations, whatever - the weeds that are
pruned out rather than the messages that remain.

Technically, it's an awful lot easier to forward the articles than it
is to get rid of them once they're there. I suppose that IN MODERATION
could forge cancel messages for the articles which get edited down;
this seems a lot easier way.

If the business venture succeeds, then obviously there's a demand for
it, whatever we all consider the company to be charging for. If it
fails, then there wasn't. I'm interested in seeing the results.

I agree with Joe Buck's observation about why there are more things
like Geoff's and Brad's ventures happening: people view netnews as a
resource, but there's so much raw stuff that it's becoming impossible
to use. I mean, look, rec.arts.comics is an extremely civilized news
group with (generally) very little flaming, and I can barely weed out
the stuff I'm really interested in out of the daily volume. There's
been a lot of talk about software solutions to the signal-to-noise
ration problems of the USENET for years; they haven't materialized. So
IN MODERATION provides one solution and ClariNet provides a whole new
information flow.
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