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From: webber@constance.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: New moderator for comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Message-ID: <May.15.04.00.51.1988.4323@constance.rutgers.edu>
Date: 15 May 88 08:00:52 GMT
References: <4050@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 36
To: spaf@cs.purdue.edu

[mailed as well as posted so that opportunity of reply to question about
ibm.binaries.pc quota would exist.]

In article <4050@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes:
> ....
> Before anybody flames about a moderator on the group, consider two points:

No particular interest in flaming this particular bad move (after all,
I don't have time to flame every mistake the backbone makes), but the
two points raised are just totally off the wall.

> 1) the group used to be moderated up until a few months ago, and no one
> had any major complaints about it then; and

Wrong.  Major complaints about moderation, binaries, and ibm pc's have been
steadily increasing since the creation of a group dedicated to all
three.  At the very least, you should have moved it to rec.*

> 2) since the group became unmoderated, the volume (and noise-level) has
> steadily increased to the point where sites, including some backbone sites,

Considering the near-nil information content of the typical ibm-pc binary
and considerating that more non-binary messages have appeared once moderation
was removed, clearly the information per message rose considerably.
Of course the binaries are so large that information per byte probably dropped,
but as long as binaries are encouraged to be posted, I can see no way
of avoiding that.

> were dropping the group.  Without a moderator, the continued existence of
> the group is very possibly in doubt.

Gee whiz.  This certainly does not justify moderation.  Zap away.

By the way, is the moderator at least imposing a quota on the number of
ibm-pc binaries bytes posted per month?

--- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)