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From: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: What is going on here?
Summary: Give it time, Tony
Keywords: is this why we needed a moderator?
Message-ID: <1871@slvblc.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 88 21:25:39 GMT
References: <2875@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: slvblc!dick@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Dick Flanagan)
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In article <2875@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell) writes:
> Are we witnessing the advantage of having this binaries group moderated?
> The move was meant to reduce the discussion of binaries and promote the
> proliferation of executables.  Instead, the opposite has occurred.  The
> only activity is the discussion of non-existent binaries.
                       ^^^^^^^^^^

Tony, you posted this to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.D  (note the "D"--it's that
thing at the end--it stands for Discussion.   ^----(that's it there  *8-)
                                ^ 
I daresay you haven't seen a whole lot of discussion lately in the now-
moderated comp.binaries.ibm.pc, and soon you will see your proliferation
of executables.


> Why must things be this way?  It is FAR inferior to the old arrangement.
> Is there something I'm missing?  Clue me in if I am!


Well, try this.  Pick a day, any day.  Now let's assume that that is
the day a popular newsgroup is to become moderated.  Okay, now let's
pick two more days; one about five days before our start-of-moderation
day, and one about five days after.  You have now defined a period of
time a little less than two weeks in length.  During this period of
time the newsgroup in question will be in absolute CHAOS!  Part of the
net won't realize it is moderated, part of it will, and another part
of it won't be sure.  *8-)  Some posted articles will be intercepted
and sent to the moderator, some will be delivered, and some will be
unceremoniously dumped because they're "unapproved."

Give it time, Tony, it'll calm down.

Dick

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