Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!linus!gatech!ken
From: ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Purposes of group
Message-ID: <17475@gatech.edu>
Date: 12 Oct 88 05:18:34 GMT
References: <6799@ig.ig.com>
Reply-To: ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii)
Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
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In article <6799@ig.ig.com> krone@PRESTO.IG.COM.UUCP (Larry Krone) writes:
>
>But, I still feel that there is no such thing as "lite censorship",
>I feel it is kind of like pregnancy, it either is there or it isn't.
>
>Larry Krone

I don't agree with the implication (eg censorship), although i agree with
the statement.

From news.groups:

	"news.admin	comments directed to news administrators."

In my opinion, news.admin is simply that: news for administrators.  I read
this group to keep up with pertinent information.  I do not read this
group to find out who hates who on the net, to find out how much dirty
laundry one net.person can dig up on another, to see flames.weemba (or
chucky), or to see 30 followups to all of the above.

I feel that a moderator will reduce the volume of extraneous postings 
unrelated to news.admin.  If nothing else, a moderator could curb the
number of completely irrelevant followups that seem to flow from every
poison pen.  

I do not view the role of the moderator as that of a censor.  I would hope 
that the moderators only job is to screen messages for relevance to the
newsgroup.

As to what is relevant to the newsgroup, I would not hazzard to give a 
cannonical list.  I do, however, believe that informing us that individual 
X is a fat slob with no job and a feeble Unix-PC is in NO WAY relevant to 
keeping me informed about how to be a better news administrator.

Of course, these are only my opinions...

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