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From: rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The death of USENET
Summary: Total moderation a good idea.
Message-ID: <3190@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 88 17:31:35 GMT
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In article <1988Jun14.230853.7574@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Actually, there is one thing that can be done without software changes,
>something that would cut traffic quite a bit and simultaneously greatly
>improve the signal/noise ratio:  go 100% moderated.

I have been advocating this position for several years, and am very
glad to find at least one other person who feels that 100% moderation
would achieve the two goals of traffic reduction and quality increase.
Roughly speaking, 60 of the 310 newsgroups are now moderated; moderating
the remaining 250 or so would not be easy, but it's an idea deserving
of serious consideration.

Rich Kulawiec,
PUCC News Admin