Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!acornrc!bob
From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: What is news.admin?  (Was Re: What is Usenet: Site Responsibility)
Summary: Everybody: stop and think a moment, please.
Message-ID: <979@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 05:55:53 GMT
References: <12636@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <173@sulaco.UUCP>
Organization: Acorn Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
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This newsgroup is news.admin.  It is supposed to be about the administration
of Usenet news.  I would like to propose a change in the description of this
newsgroup in the LIBDIR/newsgroups file.  It currently reads:

news.admin		Comments directed to news administrators.

This leaves us all open to abuse, both general and personal, by random
persons with random gripes and grudges.

I'd prefer it if this group's description read

news.admin		Discussions among news administrators (moderated).

Look.  This newsgroup has been almost completely subverted in recent weeks,
lowering its signal-to-noise ratio to the point where any useful postings
are likely to be lost in the shuffle.

We news admins need a newsgroup in which to exchange information without
constant harangues by various unbalanced individuals and the torrents of
flames which always follow.

Anyone for moderation?  I am not proposing censorship, just filtering.


-- 
Bob Weissman
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