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From: liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Purposes of group
Summary: partial moderation?
Message-ID: <2089@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 15 Oct 88 21:48:38 GMT
References: <6798@ig.ig.com> <312@fsc2086.UUCP> <10639@netsys.COM> <5598@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Reply-To: liz@grian.UUCP (Liz Allen-Mitchell)
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
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In article <5598@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> skyler@ecsvax.UUCP (Patricia Roberts)
writes:
>One kind of article which is guaranteed to provoke a flame war is
>the X's-account-should-be-pulled or let's-send-nasty-mail-here
>article.  Someone who is the subject of that kind of article _must_
>be given the right to reply--whether it be jj@portal or Gene Spafford.
>
>-Trish

Maybe we should change to the software to allow news.admin to be semi-
moderated.  That is, the new admins could post to it directly but other
users would post to it via a moderator.  This would allow information
to get out quickly about such things as the recent flood of duplicates
from microsoft while still allowing non-admins to post.

Meanwhile, I think we'd better go with moderating all of it.  Perhaps
more than one person could volunteer to lighten the load and, hopefully,
help get important articles out more quickly.  It could help set the
tone for the group later on if we decided to change over to a partially
moderated scheme.

We definitely need to do something!!!
-- 
		- Liz Allen-Mitchell	liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us
					ames!elroy!grian!liz
"God is light; in him there is no darkness at all." -- 1 John 1:5b