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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: news.admin, some moderation would be useful
Message-ID: <13002@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 5 Aug 88 11:04:54 GMT
References: <12636@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <173@sulaco.UUCP> <979@acornrc.UUCP> <3234@entire.UUCP>
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Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
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In-reply-to: news@entire.UUCP (Usenet Administrator)

In article <3234@entire.UUCP>, news@entire (Usenet Administrator) writes:
>> Look.  This newsgroup has been almost completely subverted in recent
>> weeks, lowering its signal-to-noise ratio to the point where any use-
>> ful postings are likely to be lost in the shuffle.

>In fact it is already out of hand.

This group went to the dogs starting with the Jay-Jay discussion, and
hasn't gotten much better since.

>> We news admins need a newsgroup in which to exchange information .......
>> Anyone for moderation?  I am not proposing censorship, just filtering.

>I am in agreement with Bob, WRT to the need for some form of moderation,
>however the moderation should be handled on the local level.  Only the
>site news admins should be allowed to post into news.admin.

And I think maybe the only moderation here should be for newsadmins.
The ratio of newsadmins posting articles about MES to MESs posting
articles about MES has been rather, uh, large.  The only explanation
I can think of is thought processes of the "well, since I'm the proud
newsadmin of my very own Crayola-64*, I guess it's OK for *me* to post
stupid flaming drivel here" type must be very common.

You know who you are.  Am I right?

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
(*)Crayola is a registered trademark of Binney & Smith Inc, Easton, PA