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From: osd@hou2d.UUCP (Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Informational hierarchy in moderated newsgroups
Message-ID: <519@hou2d.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 09:11:40 EST
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This is not the first time someone points out the generality
of the subject line for mod.std.c, for example.  As the
moderator of that group let me state the following:

1. I'm following standard practice as established in ARPANET.
One reason for this is that the digest goes to ARPA also, and
the volume and number is the best way to reference articles accross
nets.  Since I keep an archive, it is easy to find a reference that
way.

2. If you use readnews 2.10+ there is a feature that allows you to
scan what the topics for discussion in a digest are.  Instead
of replying 'y', reply 'd' to a digested article.  This will print
a table of contents, and then lets you read a message at a time,
and skip messages you might not be interested in.  If your news
reading software doesn't allow you to do this, switch to readnews
for those articles that come in digests.

3. Grouping - sounds good but I still haven't found it to be practical.
Since I do this as a volunteer, I find that this will just increase
my workload, so I do it when it is easy.  However, I still must keep
the subject line you complain about, mostly for the reasons in 1 above.

If you have any comments about how groups are moderated, mail to:

		cbosgd!moderators

Hope this helps.
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Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz	/AT&T Bell Laboratories, Red Hill Road
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