Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!kannan From: kannan@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Kannan Varadhan) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: news.billboard Message-ID: <74831@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 8 Dec 89 11:13:57 GMT References: <1076@utoday.UUCP> <810@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG> <37116@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Kannan Varadhan Organization: Dept. of Cptr & Info Science @ Ohio State University Lines: 20 Thus spake chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) >chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Chip Rosenthal) writes: >>In article <1076@utoday.UUCP> greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes: >>>I propose that a new group be formed, the purpose to be a simple posting >>>area for pointers to interesting discussions. > [...] The >only remote hope would be to make it moderated in some form to enforce a >no-followup/no-duplicate rule, and even then.... >(who'd be willing to moderate the thing? And define 'interesting'?) Isn't that what news.announce.newgroups is supposed to be doing, with its "call for discussions" postings? Just wondering... KANNAN -- Kannan Varadhan, Ohio Supercomputer Center, Columbus, OH 43212 [(614) 292-4137] email: kannan@osc.edu | osu-cis!oscsunb!kannan