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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: misc.headlines.unitex moderator RESIGNS
Message-ID: <1989Nov18.183042.2482@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 18 Nov 89 18:30:42 GMT
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Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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To make a constructive suggestion about m.h.unitex (what, a *constructive*
comment in news.groups?  Isn't that against the Canons or something? ;-) --

May I suggest that someone not directly related to UNITEX (and hence not as
suscepible to pressure as someone in Patt Haring's position would be) propose
a moderated newsgroup for the kinds of UNITEX messages that were intended for
misc.headlines.unitex?  As this would not be under the aegis of UNITEX, it
would be easy (or easier, at least) to reject fund-raising and other
unsuitable messages.  (For those who want to flame this, let me remind you
that the NSFnet *does* have rules, and I wouldn't be too surprised to find
that UNITEX's version of m.h.unitex would violate them.  Better to squelch one
newsgroup than lose the use of NSFnet for any newsgroup because we won't
follow the rules.)

The resulting newsgroup would provide the kind of message traffic that the
voters for m.h.unitex wanted when they voted for the newsgroup.

++Brandon
(just making a suggestion, I will not participate in such a newsgroup)
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