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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: moderation of alt.sources vs. automated harangues
Message-ID: <8467@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 14 Oct 89 02:07:22 GMT
References: <2024@convex.UUCP> <1989Oct13.192835.1330@talos.uucp> <1989Oct14.012800.12049@rpi.edu>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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(Fell in that pitfall again, tried to follow-up; but no: alt.config is not
received at our site, nor recognized, so I have to edit the Newsgroup line.)

In article <1989Oct14.012800.12049@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
 > It isn't automatic.  If it could be automated like that I think we
 > would moderate it, with the moderator being the system that
 > automatically made decisions about what was source and what wasn't.
Well, the moderator of comp.sources.misc acts somthing like that.
(Eh, no offense.)
 >                                             (I don't send them; if
 > anyone wants to see one, some jerk just posted one back to alt.sources.)
Depends on your definition of jerk.
 >                                                          Note that one
 > of the main reasons for having alt.sources as unmoderated was for the
 > near instantaneous turn around time; with no moderator intervention
 > the postings went there as soon as you made them.
Something like that.  Although, if I remember correctly, it was the fear that
a moderator would inhibit distribution of some sources.  But that discussion
was long ago.
 >                                                    I think a very good
 > approximation of this (ie, posted within a day of being mailed to the
 > moderator) would be necessary before you got many people to agree to it.
Try comp.sources.misc (of course this requires that your mail is received
by the moderator within one day and that he looks at his mail pretty
frequently).

The problem with alt.sources is of course that when you follow-up to an
article there it goes to alt.sources, unless you edit the newsgroup line.
But is alt.sources important enough to warrant measures as for
....general?  And if so, how well will the newsreading programs comply?
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