Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!jade!eris!mwm From: mwm@eris.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,news.groups Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga moderation? Message-ID: <2368@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 14:13:25 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2368 Posted: Fri Jan 30 14:13:25 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 20:02:59 EST References: <2950@j.cc.purdue.edu> <3830@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (No one lives forever.) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 36 Xref: watmath comp.sys.amiga:1828 news.groups:272 In article <253@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU> mende@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU (Bob Mende) writes: >I was telling everyone the impossiblity of moderating such a high volume >group! That may be true, but one of the reasons for a moderated group is to cut the volume down to a level that the backbone sites won't bitch about and then turn off. Some other points: 1) Moderated groups can, and do, work well. Check out mod.os. 2) They _don't_ tend to work well if there's a competing non-moderated group. For instance, how many people tried posting sources to mod.amiga.sources instead of to comp.sys.amiga? The only exception I know of is mod.sources, and that's because one of the moderators worked hard at making it work. 3) Most importantly, a moderated newsgroup has to be run from a well-connected site. Backbones work best; if the moderator doesn't live on a backbone, and can't get an account on a backbone site, then the machine the group is run from should be connected to a backbone. Note: UCBVAX is _not_ a backbone, and you can't get new connectsion to it anyway. In other words, I predict that any attempt to have a moderated amiga group will fail (== look like mod.unix) if the unmoderated groups still exist. If we try cutting to only a moderated group, it's not clear what will happen. A lot will depend on how hard the moderater is willing to work at it, cutting out flamage (like the recent MCISBTYC stuff), repeated answers, and the like. What the job amounts to is reading comp.sys.amiga, and posting the worthwhile stuff to mod.sys.amiga. Hmmm - maybe if we used that route for the cutover, it would work...