Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: An Alternative to Moderating news.admin Keywords: new group Message-ID: Date: 27 Oct 88 05:46:50 GMT References: <315@sulaco.UUCP> Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 17 To: allen@sulaco.UUCP In article <315@sulaco.UUCP> Allen Gwinn suggests a moderated newsgroup to complement news.admin. I'm all for this in the short term, but in the long term, I think we need moderation as a replacement. > 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. I don't like to think of myself as having biases, but I suppose everyone has them. Most of the people who listed reasons for their objections simply complained about the lack of timeliness. I *do* object to your spelling of my name, however (1/2 ;-). -- Eliot Lear [lear@net.bio.net]