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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: On what basis are alt.* groups created? (Re: Moderation time? ...)
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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 19:17:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  8 19:17:21 1987
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> Naturally there is no need for a moderated sf group (or to be more
> precise, yet another moderated sf group -- recall we already have
> otherrealms and the digest version of sf-lovers).

Unfortunately, neither is quite what is being asked for.  Otherrealms is
a magazine, whose editor presumably (I don't usually read it) defines its
purpose and topics rather more narrowly than a conventional moderated group.
As for the sf-l digest, digestification is precisely what most Usenet people
*don't* want, because we have better solutions to the problems that digests
were invented to solve.  And most of Usenet doesn't have the digestified
sf-lovers, by the way, last I looked.  What is wanted is moderation, without
major restriction of topic and without unnecessarily mulching individual
contributions together into a digest.

What isn't clear to me is why the issue belongs in alt.  Apart from the
screams that will result from certain factions of the community, moderating
the existing sf-lovers group sounds like a fine idea to me.  Then maybe I
could start reading it again.  Note that I am *not* volunteering to moderate
it!

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
-- 
"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry