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From: spp@oz.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
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Subject: Re: Moment of Decision
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Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 12:39:45 EST
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I have to agree with Max -- there's no way we would want
to create a MODERATED wine newsgroup!  There's little enough
wine traffic as is that the creation of an UNMODERATED
newsgroup would be barely justified -- I assume the reason
"net.wines" was not preserved was that the traffic was too
LOW.  You only need a MODERATED group if the traffic is
so high you need to cut some of it out.

Also, from many sites it is difficult or impossible to 
post things to a given moderated newsgroup, because you need
to be able to mail to the moderator, which is often impossible.
This means that even if the moderator posted everything he
received we'd still have less wine news than we do now.
For unmoderated newsgroups posting an item is much easier.

I'd like to point out that this discussion on creating a new
moderated winegroup started before I became aware that 
rec.food.drinks was the new place for wine traffic.
There's probably others in the same situation as myself.

steve