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From: eric@egsner.cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION of comp.binaries.os2
Message-ID: <1990Jan13.014918.24655@egsner.cirr.com>
Date: 13 Jan 90 01:49:18 GMT
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In article <1990Jan9.220230.14165@uwasa.fi> hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
writes:
- In article <676@banyan.UUCP> tim@banyan.UUCP (Tim Henrion@Eng@Banyan) writes:
- >I am 100% FOR the creation of comp.binaries.os2 but 100% AGAINST
- >having it moderated. Anyone who has been watching the current
- >situation in comp.binaries.ibm.pc has seen just how much time
- >and resources it takes to actually be a moderator of a high-volume
- >binaries newsgroup and there aren't a lot of people who plain
- >have the time and resources. 
- 
- Definitely there is need for moderator. We shouldn't take c.p.i.b
- and Rahul Dhesi as an example of NO-NO but as an example which should
- take as a warning - as a situation which should be taken care of.
- They only let it go too far.

        I would be more worried that an unmoderated comp.binaries.os2
would become what comp.binaries.ibm.pc was before it was moderated.
Think back two years, and remember what it was like.  Very few binaries
postings, entirely too much discussion, several commercial programs
being posted to the net (without permission), a very low signal to noise
ratio (lots of noise, very little useful information) caused it to be
considered the biggest bandwidth waster of the net.  As I remember,
c.b.i.p was nearly rmgrouped because it consumed too many resources for,
what was felt, very little gain.

        Might I suggest that comp.binaries.os2 (and perhaps
comp.binaries.ibm.pc) be handled much the way that comp.sources.misc is
handled.  No real testing of the software, just a controlled and
standardized method of distribution.  (if I have comp.sources.misc's
charter wrong, I apologize.)

        I am of the belief that sources groups and binaries groups must
be moderated, in order to insure quality and to control the traffic.
-- 
Eric Schnoebelen	eric@egsner.cirr.com		schnoebe@convex.com
	"Ford, If I were to ask where in the hell we are, would I
		 regret it?" -- Aurther Dent, HHG