Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:13086 news.groups:2857 comp.binaries.ibm.pc:521 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!gvgpsa!davew From: davew@gvgpsa.GVG.TEK.COM (David C. White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,news.groups,comp.binaries.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Moderation... on comp.binaries.ibm.pc Message-ID: <833@gvgpsa.GVG.TEK.COM> Date: 12 Mar 88 08:13:59 GMT References: <1424@polyslo.UUCP> <149@tscs.UUCP> <2310@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2054@ho95e.ATT.COM> Reply-To: davew@gvgpsa.GVG.TEK.COM (David C. White) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc, news.groups Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA Lines: 44 In article <2054@ho95e.ATT.COM> wcs@ho95e.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.,2G218,x0705,) writes: >In article <2310@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: >:In article <149@tscs.UUCP> gerard@tscs.UUCP (Stephen M. Gerard) writes: >:>There is a very definite need for moderation here! >:I volunteer to moderate again. I'm sending a message to the backbones > >Please leave it unmoderated!! The ratio of binaries to discussion has been >acceptably low, and the discussion has been evenly balanced between Maybe you haven't been getting all the postings. The majority of articles in this group have been discussions and requests which do NOT belong in a binaries group but rather in comp.sys.ibm.pc. >bug fixes and requests for stuff. WHile moderated groups may have slightly >better-quality stuff (more man pages), there's a delay involved, and How many arc/pkarc programs have been posted in this group in the last 6 months? It seems that every week another one is posted or there is a lot of discussion about the previous one that was posted. Moderation would certainly cut out a lot of the needless duplication that goes on in the binaries group. >moderation seems to inhibit posting. I do not understand why you feel that moderation inhibits posting. Probably the only thing that is inhibited in the posting of "noisy" aritcles or bad programs that do not properly belong in the group. The only inhibition is that it may make someone think a bit before they start blasting off articles which don't belong in the group to which they are being posted. Yes there is a delay involved, but the payoff for that delay is a higher quality newsgroup if the moderator is doing a good job, which most of them do. Being a moderator is not a fun job and I certainly appreciate the effort that someone is willing to undertake in order to keep a newsgroup in line with the purpose that it was established for. I have added a Followup: line to get the discussion out of the binaries group and into the groups where it properly belongs. -- =================================================================== Dave White Grass Valley Group, Inc. PHONE: +1 916.478.3052 P.O. Box 1114 Grass Valley, CA 95945 UUCP: davew@gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com or ...!tektronix!gvgpsa!davew