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From: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The death of USENET
Message-ID: <10357@mcdchg.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 14:45:58 GMT
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Bruce G. Barnett (barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com) writes:
> But it will be difficult to distinguish between the unmoderated and
> moderated rec.* groups.

I don't think this is true.  It will be easy for the software to distinguish,
because there's a different flag in the active file for moderated newsgroups.
It will be easy for the readers to distinguish, because moderated groups have
a much higher signal to noise ratio.
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
"Failure is one of the basic Freedoms!" The Doctor (in Robots of Death)