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From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: gnu.* (was Re: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies)
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Date: 24 Jul 89 15:06:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu's message of 24 Jul 89 01:29:53 GMT

In article <5617@pt.cs.cmu.edu> tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:
   ...why aren't the gnu.* groups moderated groups?

Only gnu.announce is moderated, and it broke new ground with the
moderated alias list on the Usenet "backbone" sites (for mailpaths).
It was the first non-Usenet group to achieve such status, and it paved
the way for alt.gourmand and alt.sources.amiga.

We'd prefer not to moderated the rest of the groups because that would
generate excessive load on the moderator (generally all the same
person), and would mean requesting yet more cooperation from the
non-backbone regarding non-Usenet aliases.  We'd prefer, for now, not
to impose any more on Usenet than we are.

Yes, Peter, this alias is the one place where gnu.* rides on the back
of Usenet.  I forgot about it before - sorry!