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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal
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Date: Sat, 4-Apr-87 20:57:54 EST
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>	First, it takes about 6 to 8 persons to thoroughly scan the net,
>	reading 40 hours each per week, and, on their shoestring, they can't
>	afford the help...

Last I heard, they do intend to eventually pay their moderators.  It's the
only thing they can do.  One reason why we don't have more moderated groups
is the difficulty of finding volunteer moderators.

6-8 persons should not be needed.  1.5MB/day is about 250kwords/day, at 500
words/minute (really fast readers are faster) that's 500 minutes a day, not
much more than one 8-hour shift.  Call it two people to allow for overhead,
weekends, vacations.  And that could probably be cut to one if you simply
forget about the high-volume low-signal/noise groups like soc.singles.
Actually it would be split much more widely, I'd expect, to get the desired
level of expertise for the technical groups.
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"We must choose: the stars or	Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
the dust.  Which shall it be?"	{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry