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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: One Last Wish
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Date: 13 May 91 21:28:09 GMT
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From the keyboard of jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II):
:In any case, who are =you= (That's Tom in case you can't figure it out) to
:decide what is relevant and what isn't?  If you wish to be the moderator,
:call a vote and be the moderator.  Since you stated that you don't want to
:be the moderator, stop trying to moderate the group.

This is becoming too personal.  I'll say it again: I have no desire to be
a moderator, I'd just like the community to practice sound judgment.

If you really believe that it's good to post things better destined for
alt.sourced.wanted and alt.sources.d into alt.sources, then we shall never
agree on this matter.

The bottom line is that alt.sources works best when it's a source group,
like comp.sources.misc, except that it has an instant turn-around time.  I
wouldn't want to see it moderated and lose that.   

See what happens when you followup to a comp.sources.misc posting, or post
an source-wanted request there.  Nothing, which is the right thing.

Perhaps we really should be self-moderating like alt.hackers is after
all.  I think most if not all of the noise would go away.  We could even
post how in Jonathan Kamen's FAQ.

--tom
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Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
		"So much mail, so little time."