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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,news.groups,news.admin,comp.cog-eng,comp.mail.misc,comp.society.futures,sci.psychology,sci.research
Subject: Re: How to Improve Article Quality (3rd attempt to post)?
Message-ID: <1990Feb5.025554.4562@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 5 Feb 90 02:55:54 GMT
References: <1990Feb1.195158.18867@diku.dk>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: poster
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <1990Feb1.195158.18867@diku.dk> by stodol@diku.dk (David Stodolsky):
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| Events have outraced the administrative process on UseNet. While 
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To say the least.

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| In the middle of, and in part in response to the problems with, the grupware 
| vote, allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) initiated the expnet.all 
| hierarchy and mailing list, expnet@ncoast.uucp (expnet.all: Experiments in 
| *net management and organization.). "Trying a self-moderating posting scheme"
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Expnet was becoming moribund when our former newsfeed (hal.cwru.edu) died and
knocked ncoast off the net; after we re-established the feed through
usenet.ins.cwru.edu, the expnet list received no messages.  I have a feeling
it's dead.  (My diagnosis:  lots of chat, not much real work on establishing
news connections to carry the proposed hierarchy.  I guess its time *still*
hasn't come.)

In any case, the headaches it caused me (seems that since I suggested it, I
was the one expected to lay out the connections that would make it work?) were
sufficient that I'm not sure I want to *run* any further attempts at it.  (I
am still willing to participate, but there aren't enough hours in the day for
me to become a pseudo-Spaf.)

++Brandon
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery    allbery@NCoast.ORG, BALLBERY (MCI Mail), ALLBERY (Delphi)
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