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Subject: Why moderated?
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Date: 25 Oct 89 16:28:53 GMT
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Really-From: Doug Alan <nessus@athena.mit.edu>

> From: tynor%prism@gatech.edu (Steve Tynor)

> A related question: is there any reason why this group needs to be
> moderated?  (If it wasn't, then we wouldn't have this problem...)
> |>oug, what has been the track record of submissions? Have you had
> to censor [any | some] articles?

The reason why the newsgroup is moderated is because it is really the
Love-Hounds mailing list which is gatewayed to Usenet as
"rec.music.gaffa".  It is the mailing list which is the primary form.
I arranged to gateway Love-Hounds originally because of problems
getting mail to lots of people who were on uucp-only sites.  I
actively moderated the newsgroup for a while because putting the
mailing list on Usenet degraded its quality, but the cost of active
moderation was an undue amount of my time and a serious degradation in
bandwidth of the mailing list.

Sometimes I still take the mailing list off of autopilot when things
get out of hand.  Fortunately, it doesn't happen too often, however.

|>oug