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From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
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Subject: Re: Mutual Moderation (was: Semi-moderated newsgroups)
Keywords: moderation newsgroups semi-moderated peer review quality
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Date: 13 Dec 89 21:27:04 GMT
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She said that he said that she said that stodol@freja.diku.dk (David Stodolsky) said:

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-New users can just look at which posts are getting good reviews, and on the 
-average they will see good stuff (an Emily Postnews view) even without 
-performance information in their databases. Astute authors could see if they 
-are getting bad reviews from people they usually agree with and delete 
-offending posts before they totally destroy their reputations. (A feature like 
-this could do wonders for net bandwidth :-).

A good idea, but it doesn't deal at all with subjects; only authors.  I may
disagree with someone's opinion, but I may still want to read what they have
to say on the subject, your groupware posts as an example (1/2 :-) ).  And 
subject headers occasionally (often) bear little resemblance to the message
content.

-The idea behind the followup group in the *.groupware(.f) new group proposal 
-was to have a separate channel that eventually would be used just for machine 
-readable review messages. This could be done immediately with the creation of 
-*.groupware(.f) if somebody wants to write a few lines of code.

Go for it.  Write the "few lines of code".  Personally I think it would take
more than that; then you have to convince people to install it.  Which is,
coincidentally enough, one of the things the groupware group was designed
to discuss.  

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