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From: page@ulowell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Your subscription to list I-AMIGA
Message-ID: <1082@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Sun, 22-Feb-87 23:36:32 EST
Article-I.D.: ulowell.1082
Posted: Sun Feb 22 23:36:32 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Feb-87 06:42:37 EST
References: <1043@rutgers.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell
Lines: 39
Keywords: moderation, traffic, filters, info-amiga, daemons, backbone
Summary: Stand and Shout or Sit and Die.  Your choice.

About LISTSERV telling the world that somebody else on bitnet
has just subscribed to INFO-AMIGA:

When INFO-AMIGA@RUTGERS pointed at me, I filtered these out (as
moderator of mod.amiga).  Now that mod.amiga is kaput, I asked
Eliot Lear @ rutgers (the info-amiga "moderator") to point the
INFO-AMIGA submissions to him.  Instead he pointed them at you,
so now you get to read LISTSERV postings and people saying
"please add me to the list" like you see on every other ARPA
group gatewayed to Usenet.

mod.amiga is no more, and comp.sys.amiga will remain unmoderated -
until some group of sites can't stand the volume any longer.
We must police ourselves, or others will do it for us.  One way
is to stop 'mail reflectors' like the one Rutgers has pointed
at comp.sys.amiga, and have a someone (something?) filter out
the duplicate postings and other drivel (Like BADGE telling the
world about a meeting and not bothering to restrict the distribution
to CA) that we see.  Remember reading a zillion messages about
MMUs?  Macs?  STs?  The botched Juggler posting?  The blatant
Advertising that Perry does?  That Manx just did?

What am I saying?  That comp.sys.amiga cannot continue like this,
and will collapse under its own weight.  And -will- become moderated.
Maybe a year, maybe less, maybe even more.  It will happen (and I
won't moderate it).  Unless this 'community' of readers and posters
does something to nip it in the bud, that is.

How do we do that?  We go underground.  We use MAIL for followups,
and we use MAIL for flaming at people (and things) that don't
behave socially.  It works.

..Bob

PS I am not blaming Eliot for this - since long before he was doing
info-amiga, the INFO-AMIGA stuff was pointed at me, so he didn't even
know I was getting/filtering the stuff.
-- 
Bob Page,  U of Lowell CS Dept.      ulowell!page,  page@ulowell.CSNET