Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!husc6!ukma!david
From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: comp.women -- moderated groups and the naming hierarchy
Message-ID: <9686@e.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 88 22:04:07 GMT
References: <5274@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <5274@ecsvax.UUCP> bch@ecsvax.UUCP (Byron C. Howes) writes:
>Someone facetiously suggested bringing back the mod.* distribution.  I

in a word,        ****NO****

>At one time moderated groups were thought
>to be inherently good because they increased the signal-to-noise ratio
>of the net while decreasing the volume.  Yet a way to *easily* propagate
>and accept moderated groups was not included with the naming hierarchy.

Yes they are generally better than unmoderated groups.  However there isn't
a good reason to seperate them off in another hierarchy and mess up the
nice tree we have now.

>This is a political, more than a technical, problem.  While it is simple
>enough to convince my employers to accept comp,sci,misc and mod and to
>coordinate the news linkage with our feeding site, it is less easy to
>justify accepting newsgroups on a case-by-case basis.  In the olden
>days I had a 20 line sys entry for my site of which all but one entry
>was to accept unmoderated groups on a group-by-group basis, the one
>entry was to accept all moderated groups.  To do the same now would
>probably require a larger entry and, frankly, I can't spare the time
>to track through which newsgroups are and are not moderated.

You don't have to do all that.  Instead you open up the current
copy of Usenet Version B Installation, flip to the flags section,
and see that there is a flag which passes only moderated groups.
Have your news feed use that flag for feeding you all moderated
groups.  Very simple.  They might end up having two sys file entries
for you -- one for unmoderated groups and the other for moderated.
Big deal.

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