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From: cutter@cutsys.UUCP (Bernie Hoffstadt )
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.misc,news.groups
Subject: Re: Telebit Modems (actually prod-support newsgroup)
Message-ID: <275@cutsys.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 88 02:10:00 GMT
References: <3101@phri.UUCP> <1499@codas.att.com> <5411@zen.berkeley.edu> <356@ontenv.UUCP>
Reply-To: cutter@cutsys.UUCP (Bernie Hoffstadt)
Organization: Garfield's Litterbox - Corvallis, Ore.
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Summary: Moderation


	I'm surprised that no one has suggested the proposed product-
support newsgroups be moderated.  My reservations on the subject of
creating such a newsgroup consist mainly of what I consider to be the
enourmous potential for more noise on the net.  Aside from the fact that
many systems are not going to want to pay for propogation of articles
that could benefit a competitor, there's also concern everywhere for the
increasing size of usenet.  Now it seems to me that the proposed
newsgroups would be high on the scale of usefulness, but could easily
get out of hand, as many others suggested.  However, this seems unlikely
if the newsgroups were moderated, which would not only hold down
spurious traffic, but help prevent unadvised usage of the network
resources (read advertizing hype).  This idea of course has it's own
problems; where would we find suitable moderators?

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