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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
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Subject: Re: REVISED CHARTER for rec.arts.cinema
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Date: 7 Jan 90 08:48:15 GMT
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In article <50456@bbn.COM> rshapiro@BBN.COM (Richard Shapiro) writes:
>I wouldn't get too carried away with this. Language skills are not the
>strong point of the (mostly) technical community which dominates
>Usenet. That's a fact of life we have to live with. I'm not sure
>you'll get many submissions if the writers feel they're being judged
>on this basis.

Well said -- content should be the major thing being moderated.  I'd keep it
limited to "discussions of the cinema, cinematic works or aspects of the
field."  Though I agree that the exclusions are a bit more prominent that I
like, perhaps we could boil it down to "trivia, polls and requests for
specific film information."  (Though the later could be answered once within
a moderated group.)

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