Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Moderated C group ? (was Re: Posting)
Message-ID: <1781@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 8 Jun 89 17:29:21 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>To put it another way, I'd rather weed out a bit of garbage than risk
>missing a few hastily discarded gems.

Given the amount of garbage I've seen, I'm willing to take the risk of
losing a few gems.  I think most prospective moderators can distinguish
between obvious garbage and subtle but correct answers; one would hope
that they would, in cases other than obviously bogus postings (and, time
permitting, even in those cases, in the hopes of setting the poster
straight) they'd respond to the poster by mail.

If the poster felt that the moderator didn't understand the posting,
they could explain it in more detail in a reply (if the moderator is
reasonably knowledgable, but missed the pointer anyway, it may well
indicate that the point needs to be stated more clearly) in which case
the moderator might let the improved version through.