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From: sob@academ.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: a simple alternative to moderation -- enforced self-moderation
Message-ID: <124@academ.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-May-87 19:24:34 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  3 19:24:34 1987
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Reply-To: sob@academ.UUCP (Stan Barber)
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In article <522@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU> webber@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU (Webber) writes:
>Of course, if you want someone else's idea of quality, there are
>professionally edited publications on every subject covered by usenet
>(well, maybe there isn't one about stargate yet).  The libraries are
>full of them and they don't cost a cent (that is a cent more than the
>taxes you are already paying).
>----------------- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; BACKBONE!topaz!webber)

I have yet to find a professionally editied publication that deals with
the technical aspects of computing on as Masscomp computer. If you find
one, please send me a note so I can inform the people who read 
comp.sys.masscomp. Responses that mention unix or 68000-based computers
do not deal with the real-time or data-acquisition aspects of these
computers and it is the consideration of all these factors that make
the need for the newsgroup necessary. 

I chose to set it up as moderated because many Masscomp users are not 
on usenet, and have to have the items in the newsgroup mailed to them 
directly. Also, I believe that removing redundancy is simply good stewartship
of the usenet resource. A moderated newsgroup affords this; an unmoderated 
one does not. As a moderator, I do not tend to enforce my ideas of quality,
but simply attempt to provide a conduit between users. I grant that this is a
monitored flow that will sometimes have my comments added in, but often 
that takes care of the query or stimulates other thoughts.

Stan Barber, moderator of comp.sys.masscomp



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