Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:13147 comp.binaries.ibm.pc:557
Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!gerry
From: gerry@syntron.UUCP (G. Roderick Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Moderation...
Summary: Come on now, discussions can proceed in comp.sys.ibm.pc.
Keywords: ok, definitely time for it...
Message-ID: <275@syntron.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 18:19:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: syntron.275
Posted: Mon Mar 14 13:19:40 1988
References: <1424@polyslo.UUCP> <149@tscs.UUCP> <125@aeras.UUCP>
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Syntronics Manufacturing Inc., ON, Canada
Lines: 43

In article <125@aeras.UUCP>, richard@aeras.UUCP (Richard Karasik) writes:
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> .If there are any serious potential moderators out there, here are a few
> .features that I would like to see:
> .
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> 
> In addition - the standard header should have VOLUME: etc so that
> standard archiving programs that grab stuff out of various places
> like comp.sources can be "slightly" modified (I emphasize slightly)
> to grab stuff out of here and archive it automatically. 
> 
This is an exceptionally good idea.
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> Sorry for the extra chit chat -but no x.x.x.d group yet.

About this last line, I think that comp.sys.ibm.pc provides a more than
adequate forum for our discussion.  While I agree that there may periods
of excessive noise in this group,  for the most part ours fits right in and
aren't we attempting to encourage postings of binaries to our binaries
group?  Of course we are.  

I propose that we move our moderation discussion to the group that will
benefit most by its moderation, comp.sys.ibm.pc.  We will gain two ways
reduction of the noise in our binaries group and increasing the number of
interested readers.  My hope would be that reaching a broad scope of
ibm-pc users would, in the end, increase the volume of good software and
reduce the amount of sources, et cetera in the sys group.  Before anyone
says that the group is too noisy, I read the whole thing faithfully every
day and I have yet to find more than 10-13% in the garbage category.  This
is in constrast to the cr-er-junk in new.groups where I "catchup" more often
than not.  Further, some of the naive questions pertain directly to use
an transfer of the very binaries we are attempting to moderate.

Good idea?  I hope so.


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G. Roderick Singleton, Technical Services Manager
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