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From: rissa@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Patricia O Tuama)
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Subject: Re: REC.ARTS.CINEMA -- drawing the discussion to a close?
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Date: 16 Jan 90 13:01:38 GMT
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In article <1990Jan13.173807.9313@everexn.uucp> karen@everexn.uucp (Karen Valentino) writes:
       To anyone who objects to moderation of a nontechnical 
>group--why?  

Moderation means having to submit your work to another netter first
in order to get his or her permission to post it.  Now, this may not
bother you at all, Karen, but having to ask for someone's else's per-
mission before you're allowed to post bothers a lot of other people.

Moderation should only be used as a last resort.  Why not set this
group up as unmoderated, someone can volunteer to write and post the
monthly article explaining what belongs in r.a.m and what belongs in
the proposed group, try it for four or five months and see how it
goes?

>  What about r.h.f., one of the most-read groups on usenet?  

What about rec.music.gaffa?

					 Is there a guideline 
>somewhere that I don't know about?  And if there is one, why?  

Gene Spafford discusses them in one of his monthly articles.  And in
fact, if you check his most recent posting on this subject you will 
find he lists 91 rec.groups of which exactly six are moderated (rec.
arts.movies.reviews, rec.guns, rec.humor.funny, rec.mag.fsfnet, rec.
mag.otherrealms and rec.music.gaffa).