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From: jsol@bu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: "try-out trials" (and some general opinions)
Message-ID: <6582@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 17:07:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 15 17:07:57 1987
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Reply-To: jsol@buita.UUCP (Jon Solomon)
Organization: Boston Univ. CS Dept.
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I can't agree more with Lauren's comments. One thing that always
made me sick of usenet was the repetitive comments. Moderated
newsgroups like TELECOM (a moderated group) takes on the following
role:

1) pick the best submission to post ("Bullwinkle's middle initial was "J.")

2) Thank everybody else who posted

"Thanks go to Saul Jaffe <Jaffe@BLUE>
	     Mel Pleasant <Pleasant@RED>
	     Liz Sommers <Sommers@USENIX>
	     and Jerry Price <JP@YOURFAVORITEHOST.UUCP>

for saying the same thing".

The ARPANET has much experience with moderated groups, and most of us
agree that they are far superior to immediate (shout) lists for most
high volume applications. I have been a moderator for 6 years or
so, and have seen enough of the ARPANET traffic to know that moderation
is best for large volume lists.

--jsol