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From: RWC102@PSUVM (R. W. F. Clark)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Newsgroup guidelines etc
Message-ID: <80358RWC102@PSUVM>
Date: 8 Apr 89 21:33:53 GMT
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In <11269@well.UUCP> tneff@well.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:

[An excellent proposal for newroups involving
 centralizing the group creation authority.]

It might also be a good idea to moderate news.groups
to limit it to calls for votes, creating an unmoderated
discussion group to avoid the extremely low SNR of
news.groups.

It might be possible to weed out the more silly newsgroup
proposals at the moderator level, or to allow the moderator
to ensure that newsgroup name proposals are correct, to
avoid groups created in inappropriate hierarchies.

However, it might be best to avoid giving the moderator
veto power to avoid newsgroups being scuttled before
discussion because the moderator doesn't like them.

It would also be very easy to enforce the two weeks' discussion
rule, ensure the validity of votes, avoid duplication and prevent
votes being lost due to poorly-connected vote-collectors.

fc