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From: rob@philabs.Philips.Com (Rob Robertson)
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Subject: Re: comp.sources.wanted useless?  (was: A rehash ...)
Message-ID: <1598@briar.Philips.Com>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 08:24:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 25 08:24:27 1987
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In article <2205@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
>I agree that comp.sources.wanted is not an appealing newsgroup to
>read, but I cannot condone posting "wanted" messages in other
>newsgroups either.  comp.sources.wanted has to be made less of a waste
>of time for the reader.  To put it bluntly, the group needs to be
>moderated.

>Comments?

I disagree, I don't read comp.sources.wanted.  I scan the subject
lines using the "=" key in rn, and then respond based on if I can
help them.  Bundling everything up defeats this method. 

Two other thoughts.  Sometimes it is adviseable to put a state wide/
city wide distribution on a wanted message, moderating defeats that.
There is also a time lag between it getting to the moderator and
back out on the net, which if you need something urgently is a
bother.

rob

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