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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,alt.config
Subject: Re: moderation of alt.sources vs. automated harangues
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Date: 24 Oct 89 22:38:53 GMT
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| Name changes, moderation etc. are all solutions hunting for a problem.
> . . .
| the name were changed, people would still post requests for reposts and
| "does anyone have X" to it.  Only education will solve the problem.
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Part of the education can be skipped with a name change.  The point is that
*all* of the mis-posted submissions I get for comp.sources.misc are derived
from confusion about the intent of the word "sources".  It should be more
explicit about what it means; please remember that most people do *not* use
the word the way it is often used in program-related newsgroups and in the
names of the existing source-code newsgroups.

Education, yes, but you won't reach the people who are most likely to make
this mistake:  new net.users who are not yet familiar with the "jargon" of
Usenet.  And it takes sufficient time to "digest" a newusers info posting that
putting a definition there won't help much.

Clarify the name.  It'll do wonders.

++Brandon
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