Xref: utzoo news.admin:3929 news.groups:6141 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!vsi1!ubvax!ardent!sim!kmw From: kmw@sim.ardent.com (Ken Wallich) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: QUESTION OF MODERATION FOR NEWS.ADMIN: VOTE TALLY Message-ID: <703@ardent.UUCP> Date: 9 Nov 88 18:59:45 GMT References: <31@gnome6.pa.dec.com> <691@ardent.UUCP> <8411@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <5740@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Sender: news@ardent.UUCP Reply-To: kmw@sim.ardent.com (Ken Wallich) Organization: Ardent Computer Corp., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 30 In article <5740@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> skyler@ecsvax.UUCP (Patricia Roberts) writes: >In article <8411@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) writes: >>In article <691@ardent.UUCP> kmw@sim.ardent.com (Ken Wallich) writes: >>The answer is quite simple. Create news.admin.d for people wanting to >>discuss news administrators, and then moderate news.admin so news admins >>can have a place to news administration. > >This was NOT what the vote was about. It was whether news.admin should be >moderated, not whether it should be moderated AND restricted to news >administrators. Hey, keep *my* name out of this. This is just another of John's cynical jokes. If you read it carefully, it is obvious he is not being serious. Not that I advocate mildly satirical humor in a group where many people have no sense of it. I simply agreed that it might be usefull to discuss Eliot's secondary proposal of creating a moderated version of news.admin SEPARATE from news.admin, and LEAVE news.admin ALONE, which seemed to be the wish of a lot of people (leaving news.admin alone, that is). Ken Wallich Ardent Computer Corp kmw@ardent.com Sunnyvale, California, USA "chance is the fool's name for fate"