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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: PLEASE post only sources to alt.sources
Message-ID: <1991Mar08.211000.23039@convex.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 21:10:00 GMT
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>Maybe we should have a person to filter all the non-source messages in
>alt.sources to alt.sources.d. This person should not judge and thus
>delay the posting of sources but simply get rid of all the non-source
>messages.

>Is this possible for an established newsgroup?

Without a moderator?  Only through cancels, which don't work well,
and would get you talked about.  Still, doesn't sound too horrible, 
but I don't think it would fly.

--tom