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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,alt.config
Subject: Re: moderation of alt.sources vs. automated harangues
Message-ID: <1989Oct17.011255.17569@rpi.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 89 01:12:55 GMT
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In <1989Oct15.161425.1638@NCoast.ORG>, allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery):
Brandon> My original intent for comp.sources.misc was to do
Brandon> essentially what has been proposed for a moderated
Brandon> alt.sources: get it out fast if it's source, reject it if
Brandon> not.  But I ran into a snag: archivers.  It seems that once
Brandon> you moderate a sources group, people start archiving it...
Brandon> and they prefer specific formats, such as all the
Brandon> auxiliary-header baggage.  There's also the problem that once
Brandon> a moderator is in the loop, people expect him/her to reject
Brandon> or repack uuencoded arc/compress/whatever postings.  So there
Brandon> is now a potential delay in c.s.misc.

So, put it right in the moderation's charter.  No special formats,
just purging of non-source messages.  Russ has already indicated that
he is willing to do as much (little?) as that.  Furthermore, you could
just ignore the moderatedness of the group and post sources right past
him.  No one should mind that at all, given only a "sources only!"
charter.

Dave
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