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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: mod.* groups (formerly Re: net.sources.d poll results)
Message-ID: <1095@burl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 12:44:01 EST
Article-I.D.: burl.1095
Posted: Sat Mar  8 12:44:01 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Mar-86 00:36:40 EST
References: <1064@burl.UUCP> <72@cstvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Summary: 

In article <72@cstvax.UUCP> gdmr@cstvax.UUCP (George D M Ross) writes:
>In article <1064@burl.UUCP> rcj@burl.UUCP (me) writes:
>># rmgroup net.sources, use only mod.sources
>>*I* liked this one a lot, but so many people screamed that the mod.*
>>groups are not yet out of their infancy and are difficult to post to,
>>etc. that I don't think it is a good idea *yet*.  Many people expressed
>>difficulties in reaching moderators of certain groups, for example;
>>mod.sources was cited in particular.
>
>For groups where postings may be large, such as mod.sources, we should perhaps
>be thinking of having multiple moderators at sites which are geographically
>widely separated (or maybe separated in terms of some network connectivity
>and cost metric, but that wouldn't be so simple...).  The consequent
>reduction in redundant traffic (e.g. shipping Kbytes of source across the
>Atlantic only to have it shipped straight back again) would surely outweigh
>any possible drawbacks.  With more moderators the workload would presumably
>be spread more thinly too...?

I like this one a lot, too!  Really, shouldn't we at least be thinking
about one moderator per *continent* for mod.sources and other potentially
high-traffic groups?

An aside to Mark and/or Gene:  Is there info in the net.announce.newusers
stuff on posting to mod.* groups?
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