Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!soma!cortex!sob From: sob@cortex.UUCP Newsgroups: news.stargate Subject: Re: how does comp.sys.masscomp benefit from a moderator????? Message-ID: <3131@soma.bcm.tmc.edu> Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 14:33:32 EDT Article-I.D.: soma.3131 Posted: Mon Jun 8 14:33:32 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jun-87 01:01:13 EDT References: <965@vortex.UUCP> <7946@utzoo.UUCP> <7947@utzoo.UUCP> <3112@soma.bcm.tmc.edu> <242@brandx.rutgers.edu> <891@fmsrl7.UUCP> Sender: usenet@soma.bcm.tmc.edu Reply-To: sob@soma.UUCP (Stan Barber) Organization: Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx Lines: 52 In article <891@fmsrl7.UUCP> wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP (Michael R. Wayne) writes: > > 1) I have posted several articles to the [masscomp] newsgroup (requesting > help on various items, offering help on others) and have never > seen them come back. Either the moderator is killing them or my > postings are not getting to him (might account for the lack of > traffic?). I'm mailing through philabs, which should have a > valid path. The moderator (me) is not killing ANY postings UNLESS they are repetative. I don't like noise, but I do like submissions. I would suggest you try a loopback test with soma to see if you CAN get mail here. I'd love to have your submissions. I know that sites near philabs can reach me since one of the user group officers also posts through philabs. I don't know why you are having a problem. Perhaps you should mail them directly to masscomp@soma.uucp (or masscomp%soma.UUCP@rice.edu). I just looked back in the archives and indeed no articles reached me from you. Please try again! > 2) Again, the number of messages are so small that moderation is > not going to affect much. We have about 12 Masscomps here in this > building, mine is the only registered machine and only 2 others > even get the news. Because the machine is targeted for a data > acquisition market, many of them do not get on the net at all. > This leads to few postings. This is a very different arguement to the one offered by webber@rutgers. He suggested that the Masscomp is like most 68000 boxes and posting should go to comp.sys.workstations. I agree with your arguement, but I felt that having the group moderated would make news group creation easier. Would you rather not have the group at all and use comp.sys.workstations? > > 3) Perhaps lifting moderation would encourage people to post more? > We certainly could use more information, knows that > Masscomp doesn't want to provide it. There is no evidence of this. The only conclusive evidence about the effect of moderation deals with the reduction of noise and slowness of processing by the moderator and the mail system. Reduction of noise is a big win. Moderator processing is definately a problem. >-- >Michael R. Wayne Voice: (313) 322-3986 | philabs \ >Working at (but not employed by) Ford Motor Company | pyramid !fmsrl7!wayne > | ihnp4!mb2c / 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.