Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!algor2.algorists.com!jeffrey From: jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com (Jeffrey Kegler) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Semi-moderated newsgroups Message-ID: <1989Nov21.153837.3222@algor2.algorists.com> Date: 21 Nov 89 15:38:37 GMT References: <1989Nov19.223239.26100@algor2.algorists.com> <25684AE6.26256@ateng.com> <14940@bfmny0.UU.NET> Reply-To: jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM (Jeffrey Kegler) Organization: Algorists, Inc. Lines: 35 Tom> Article <14940@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Chip> Article <25684AE6.26256@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Chip> I'd read these groups more often if I knew that the Chip> correct answers from Doug Gwyn, Guy Harris, Chris Torek, Henry Spencer, et Chip> al weren't often contradicted and sometimes flamed by ignorant newbies, Chip> especially those who flame hardest because they have Good Intentions. Tom> Keeps 'em honest though. Even "experts" make mistakes. Usenet would be Tom> a poorer place if we introduced the caste system. I mean, why stop Tom> there? ... Much larger than the problems of finding someone to keep the net "authorities" honest, would be to keep them from flaming each other. I anyone on the above list were to err (unlikely, but so was the Berlin Wall falling this year), the others would be very fast to correct him (gently I hope). A couple of clarifications: Semi-moderated groups should never be granted a monopoly. That is, if a semi-moderated version of comp.lang.c starts up, the old group should remain. Also multiple semi-moderated groups on the same topic should be allowed (and probably encouraged). The competition will keep moderation from getting stiffling. Second, the people allowed "pass-through" posting, the "authorities" as I called them, would not be limited to net.luminaries like the above. Lesser lights who contribute to the discussion would also be "authorities". Perhaps a better term than authorities would be "pass-through posters". -- Jeffrey Kegler, Independent UNIX Consultant, Algorists, Inc. jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM or uunet!algor2!jeffrey 1762 Wainwright DR, Reston VA 22090