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From: thomps@gitpyr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,news.groups
Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga moderation?
Message-ID: <3045@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 16:48:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  6 16:48:28 1987
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In article <510@hao.UCAR.EDU>, woods@hao.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
> 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!
> 
>   The alternative may be that certain sites that have very high phone bills
> but few or no Amiga users may drop the group, thus limiting its distribution
> and therefore its usefulness. If you don't want such groups (and this is
> not to pick on Amiga; the same applies to Mac, PC, etc. source groups) to
> be moderated, then I would recommend coming up with some other ways of
> reducing volume to reasonable levels before the hammer falls. Personally,
> I don't think there are any, but I certainly welcome constructive suggestions.
> 
Gregs comments are very important. I am not sure if everyone who reads this
group actually understands how the net works. The net is dependent on back
bone sites which pass along the entire volume of net traffic. For the last
couple of years there have been continual complaints about high cost of
phone bills for these sites and thus pushes for moderation of high volume 
news groups. If a back bone site desides to drop a news group, it restricts the number of sites that receive it. It may not happen only to sites with few
amiga users. Even sites that have a lot of readers of a group may succomb to
cost problems especially since many are academic institutions. Concerted
action of news administrators at back bone several sites has eliminated 
binary postings in the ibm pc group. They accomplished this by simply 
stating that the news group would be dropped if the postings did not cease.
Unfortunately, it can happen to comp.sys.amiga too. I don't want moderation
but perhaps everyone could stop and think before posting another Ammiga vs.
the world (or world vs. amiga) tirade.
group would be dropped if such postings continued.
-- 
Ken Thompson  Phone : (404) 894-7089
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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