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From: skyler@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Patricia Roberts)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Purposes of group
Message-ID: <5549@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 12 Oct 88 17:33:29 GMT
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Reply-To: skyler@ecsvax.UUCP (Patricia Roberts)
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I was under the impression that people thought this group should be
moderated because the group can serve two functions:  to provide an
open forum (that is, one which net.plebes like myself can read) in
which administrators can talk among one another; to provide a way in
which net.plebes can communicate with administrators.

Neither of those can happen if administrators don't read the group.
And they won't read the group if it is filled with threats and counter-
threats, whining, and name-calling.  But a group lacking those things
is not necessarily purely technical.  For example, some of the Portal
discussion was not inappropriate here--in theory, if not in practice
and in content, if not in tone.  A moderator would try to keep the
practice a little closer to the theory and the tone a little more
appropriate.

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-Trish 					"...a lifetime is too narrow 
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