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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Semi-moderated newsgroups
Summary: Your papersss, pleassse!
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Date: 20 Nov 89 22:23:49 GMT
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In article <25684AE6.26256@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>                   I'd read these groups more often if I knew that the
>correct answers from Doug Gwyn, Guy Harris, Chris Torek, Henry Spencer, et
>al weren't often contradicted and sometimes flamed by ignorant newbies,
>especially those who flame hardest because they have Good Intentions.

Keeps 'em honest though.  Even "experts" make mistakes.  Usenet would be
a poorer place if we introduced the caste system.  I mean, why stop
there?  You could have all sorts of intermediate privilege levels:
always allowed to CROSS-post, allowed to cross-post but only via
moderator, always allowed to post with nondefault expire, ditto only via
moderator, NEVER allowed to post, always allowed to post LONG articles,
ditto via moderator, etc etc etc.  Future net.kafkaesque.flunkies await
these developments with relish...

As we learned to ask in my middle school social studies class (during a
brief aberrant phase of liberality in education): "Who decides?"

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