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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: obnoxious mail
Message-ID: <1989Oct18.224051.7996@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 18 Oct 89 22:40:51 GMT
References: <2024@convex.UUCP> <46988@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <46988@bbn.COM> by news@bbn.COM (News system owner ID):
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| tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) writes:
| < ...  If you think alt.sources
| < should be restricted, moderate it.  If not, stop bitching.
| 
| Funny, I thought alt.sources was supposed to be _un_ moderated, and
| was created by the people who thought that moderating mod.sources was
| facist.
+---------------

Actually, it was created by people who thought that moderating net.sources was
fascist.  It is worth noting that I support alt.sources, however... moderation
is not for all sources or for all times, and it carries certain implied duties
in the monds of posters on the part of the moderator which are guaranteed to
slow things down.  But unmoderation, as has been made obvious by our "friend"
Dunc, has its down points.

I think we can find ways to deal with the occasional Dunc (or, for that
matter, a Bob Webber), though, and the existing means seem to work for other
offenders.

++Brandon
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