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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
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Subject: Re: rec.arts.cinema: moderated or not?
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Date: 23 Jan 90 07:48:49 GMT
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A few comments on the whole moderation issue:

a)  Blair's e-mail policing or not, there will be a certain amount of
    r.a.movies  overlap onto rec.arts.cinema; the amount may be minimal, but
    it may not be, either.  Obviously, we all have to put up with a certain
    amount of static in various groups, but if it goes on in rec.arts.cinema
    (or whatever the name is), we'll basically end up with rec.arts.movies
    in stereo, making the moderation of .cinema of more-than-normal value.

b)  Moderation of rec.arts.cinema is not going to Infringe your Personal
    Freedoms, if handled as it has been in other moderated groups I've had
    experience with.  I've been submitting articles to
    rec.arts.movies.reviews for about two years now, and Evelyn Leeper has
    never given me (or anyone else, as far as I know after scanning r.a.m
    and n.g) since the groups inception.  She leaves what I wrote alone,
    warts and all, though she's gone Above and Beyond once or twice and
    dropped me a quick note pointing out some real grammatical or historical
    boner.  In each instance she asked in the most polite terms if I'd like
    to change it, being quite clear that it was entirely up to me; in almost
    every case I made the correction, and was thankful that she had pointed
    it out.

    I'm certain Manavendra will do as good a job, basically acting as a
    Subject filter; his last few articles lead me to believe that is just
    what he envisions the job to be, as well.  And if all the Great Power
    entrusted to rec.arts.cinema moderator ever went to his head and he
    woke up one morning with a net-fascist complex, I'm sure we'll be able
    to get him out without bloodshed.  Luckily, this condition doesn't
    seem to afflict real people much.  

c)  Those who see rec.arts.cinema moderation as the first step to a
    net.dictatorship might do well to step back from it all, and take a deep
    breath.  Personally, I'm a bit more worried about recent Supreme Court
    decisions and American military actions, but that's what you happens
    when you get your news from foreign magazines...

In summary, I'd have to say that I'll continue to read (and to post) to
rec.arts.movies, and that I'll vote yes for rec.arts.cinema (or any sensible
name), moderated or not, with the provision that we could turn it into a
moderated group later on.  I'd rather start it moderated, because I don't
believe it would we be detrimental in any way; and there's no guarantee that
we'll have as capable a candidate for moderator if we decide to moderate it
sometime in the future.  While there are very few groups which would benefit
from moderation, I do believe that rec.arts.cinema would be one of them.

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