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From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Traffic in present moderated newsgroups
Message-ID: <347@wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 23:46:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  5 23:46:13 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Feb-85 19:04:49 EST
Organization: Watkins Johnson, San Jose, Calif.
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There's been a lot of hue and cry on moderation of
newsgroups.  I'd like to know how our present moderated
'non-professional' newsgroups are going.  How about
it moderators?  Much traffic in mod.motss, mod.singles,
mod.movies?  How much of that is reposted from net.whatever?
I'd check myself, but something happened to /usr/spool
over here and we lost everything up to about 2 days ago.
Pity.  But never mind.

The point is, given a choice, do people even read the moderated
stuff?  Or do they continue in their old anarchistic ways?

This came to me the other day as I was cleaning up our archive of
net.sources.  (Thanks Chuq, I got it working.)  I had neglected to
archive mod.sources and was wondering what I missed, if anything.
I discovered that my natural inclination was to totally ignore the
moderated groups.  I wonder if this inclination is representitive
of netters in general?
-- 

	Ron Christian  (Watkins-Johnson Co.  San Jose, Calif.)
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