Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ptsfa!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!soma!usenet From: usenet@soma.bcm.tmc.edu (USENET maintenance) Newsgroups: news.stargate Subject: Re: how does comp.sys.masscomp benefit from a moderator????? Message-ID: <3112@soma.bcm.tmc.edu> Date: Mon, 18-May-87 19:26:17 EDT Article-I.D.: soma.3112 Posted: Mon May 18 19:26:17 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 24-May-87 01:59:54 EDT References: <965@vortex.UUCP> <7946@utzoo.UUCP> <7947@utzoo.UUCP> <124@academ.UUCP> <228@brandx.klinzhai.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: sob@cortex.UUCP (Stan Barber) Organization: Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx Lines: 47 In article <228@brandx.klinzhai.RUTGERS.EDU> webber@klinzhai.RUTGERS.EDU (Webber) writes: >Unless masscomp is one of these wierd closed-system/no-source/bad-manual systems, >I am hard put to figure out what you are up to out there (aside from generating >messages for your group). It is a Multibus-based 680X0 machine. The next generation will be VME-based. Since your sample is 5 messages, you probably don't know much about the scope of the group. So, I would say that you indeed would be hard put to figure out what we are up to out here. >[Incidently, your signature line on the group indicates that you are >president of the Masscomp User's Group -- don't they have a newsletter?] Yes, it is called MUSings. >[By the way, do you archive your group?] Yes, I distributed the first year's archive at the users' group meeting that the summaries summarize. >I would love to hear/see all these redundant messages you have been >filtering out. Perhaps 60 users recently asked if anyone had gotten >`top' to work? Or perhaps the microvax/masscomp configuration has >spawned hundreds of requests about how to get it working? Are you saying that having the noise is worth a lack of moderation? If you are, you must have access to limitless long-distance and gigabytes of disk-space on which to store this noise. Most Masscomp users do not. > >I fail to see why it is necessary for you to moderate the usenet >discussion in order for you to forward it to non-usenet users. > It is not necessary. It is just an easy way to allow others (not on USENET) to join into the discussion. The internet has been doing this way along time. >Certainly it is possible to answer queries and stimulate discussion without >forcing all of it to go through you first. > I agree, but with moderation there is one answer written once, not 30 or 40 times. Again, you seem to opt for high noise and repetition vs. conservation of resources. >---------------------------- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu) Stan uucp:{shell,rice,seismo}!soma!sob Opinions expressed here Olan domain:sob@rice.edu or sob@soma.bcm.tmc.edu are ONLY mine & Barber CIS:71565,623 BBS:(713)790-9004 noone else's.