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From: rob@phavl.UUCP (Robert Ransbottom)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Yet another thing smart feeders can do
Keywords: elitism moderation
Message-ID: <182@phavl.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 89 17:43:41 GMT
References: <35837@looking.on.ca> <784@philmtl.philips.ca> <36450@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: rob@phavl.UUCP (Robert Ransbottom)
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In article <36450@looking.on.ca> Brad sez:

>"Elitist?"  In a strange sense yes, in that a moderated group is
>somewhat elitist.  But what I proposed, in the context of moderated
                                  ^^^\
                                      a "controller" allows posting
								              to his news.group by putting people
                                      in a post.allow or post.deny file.
>groups, was the opposite of elitist!  Under the current system, in a
>moderated group, only one person can post.  All I suggested was a mechanism
>to allow people to post in moderated groups without intervention from
>the moderator.
>

This is badly thought.  In the current system one person moderates or edits.
All may post.  Thus a moderator can put out his group on the basis of the 
content of the messages, not by authorship.

>I suggest a method of lessening a moderator's intervention, and it gets
>called disgustingly elitist.  [ ... ]

Quite reasonably so.  Of course if the elite were truely the elite,
it would be okay :-).


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rob