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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Posting
Message-ID: <13410@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 26 May 89 01:02:56 GMT
References: <1989May23.030223.24871@utzoo.uucp> <929@maestro.htsa.aha.nl>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <929@maestro.htsa.aha.nl> fransvo@htsa.UUCP (Frans van Otten) writes:
|Henry Spencer writes:
|>Frans van Otten writes:
|>>How would you feel about a moderated comp.lang.c.questions group?
|>>It could stop those wars, making space for real answers.
|>
|>(b) If there is also an unmoderated group, how do you propose to keep
|>    the wars out of it?
|
|That's not important.  If someone has a serious question, he or she
|can ask it in the moderated group.   If the group is known as a
|high quality one, interest in the unmoderated group will cease.

That sounds reasonable, but it doesn't work that way in practice.  If you have
two groups with essentially the same charter, but only one is moderated, the
unmoderated one gets all the traffic.

If there's a problem with too much noise here, the solution should be to make
comp.lang.c itself moderated.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint