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From: dean@violet.berkeley.edu (/violet_g/dean)
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Subject: Re: Usenet reorganization list
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Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 18:28:44 EST
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Summary: Why does mod.ification == demise?

In article <520@mplvax.nosc.MIL> rec@mplvax.UUCP (Richard Currier) writes:
>In article <16406@mordor.ARPA> jdb@mordor.UUCP writes:
>>Also, it isn't clear what the criteria for this are -- "comp.sys.mac"
>>and "comp.sys.amiga" will be moderated, but "comp.sys.ibm.pc" and
>>"comp.sys.atari16" will not.  "net.micro.pc" has been the subject...
>
>Forget it John. The anti-mac forces are going to win this one.
>....
>I use the tools that you have passed through the net every day on the job.
>To eliminate the information flow that provided those tools...

Why do you feel that turning a group into a moderated group is
equivalent to eliminating it?  I appreciate the (generally speaking)
higher signal/noise ratio of moderated groups.  Submissions are
generally a bit better thought out and multiple copies of the same
response can be filtered out.

- Dean	(dean@violet.berkeley.edu)