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From: rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Poll: Should all Usenet newsgroups be moderated?
Keywords: Usenet, newsgroup, moderate
Message-ID: <3220@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 88 13:02:07 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Unix Systems Staff
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It would appear that there is significant interest in ascertaining
how Usenet as a whole feels about this question, so, loathe as I am
to generate more mail traffic -- especially when it lands in my mailbox --
this article announces a poll on total moderation.

The question at hand is:

Should all Usenet newsgroups be moderated?

1. Please send your "vote" to me by replying to this article; in this
way, the context of the "Subject:" line will be preserved, and your
letter will be correctly filed by my mail handler.

2. Please indicate clearly whether your "vote" is a yes, no, or maybe.
Optionally, please indicate whether you are a "news user" or a "news
administrator".  (If you're both, just pick one.)

3. The term "vote" is in quotes because this is not an election or
even a binding referendum.  It's an opinion poll with no authority
whatsoever.  I will certainly make the results available, and it
is possible that some future action may be motivated in part by
the results, but, at the moment, this is just a poll.

4. By "Usenet newsgroup" I mean the approximately 310 newsgroups
listed in the "List of Active Newsgroups" articles posted by Gene
Spafford.  Thus, this term does not include the "alt", "gnu", "inet", or
other distributions.

5. Today is June 18, 1988; I will accept "votes" until July 9, 1988.
Please mail your vote to one of the following:

rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu
rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu
pur-ee!rsk

6. I'm not a member of the backbone; I'm not a newsgroup moderator
(I was at one time); but I am a news administrator.  Please do not
send me long letters arguing for or against total moderation.  Such
discussion is probably best carried out in a newsgroup, not in my mailbox.

Rich