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From: allen@sulaco.UUCP (Allen Gwinn)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: An Alternative to Moderating news.admin
Keywords: new group
Message-ID: <315@sulaco.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 12:02:34 GMT
Organization: SULACO, Dallas, TX
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I would like to propose that instead of changing news.admin to moderated,
we create a moderated forum to complement news.admin.  The "noise" could
be filtered out by a moderator, the result posted to the group.  Those that
didn't wish to wade through the stuff in news.admin could read the edited
version in the moderated forum.

One of the major concerns with a totally moderated forum (Elliot doesn't
seem to agree) is that moderation would lead to a biased forum.  This
proposal would virtually eliminate this concern as people would have 
the option of reading the raw input themselves rather than be forced
to read an edited version of whats posted.

This would also solve the problem on turn-around time, as there would
always be a "standard" newsgroup that anyone could post to.

Please post comments on this (or email them to me).
-- 
Allen Gwinn  ...sulaco!allen        Disclaimer: The facts stated are my own.
"If you're not a liberal at 20, you have not heart, and if you're not a
 conservative at 40, you have no head" --Winston Churchill