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From: control@almsa-1 (William Martin)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Causes on the net... (Suggestion to limit traffic)
Message-ID: <202@almsa-1>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 15:31:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 15:31:32 1985
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In article <3207@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>Moderation as it currently is set up turned out to be a rather unqualified
>failure. With the exception of a very few groups that were essentially
>moderated before (mod.map, mod.newslists, and the std crew) none of
>the other moderated groups has really shown any positive functionality at
>all. I just don't think there is a way to graft moderation onto the USENET
>setup, unless you are willing to redefine USENET.
>
While I hesitate to challenge an expert in this, let me mention that
mod.rec.guns is working just fine, and I would call it a success.

It might be a special case, being a topic of high interest to a number
of people, and in great danger of attack by the forces of the enemy
(that is, anti-gunners), so it can ONLY exist under the umbrella of
moderation. Nonetheless, its success does contradict the statement above.

Will