Xref: utzoo news.groups:17328 alt.sys.sun:505 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!well!jef From: jef@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.sys.sun Subject: comp.sys.sun performance Message-ID: <15966@well.UUCP> Date: 5 Feb 90 08:21:10 GMT Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 40 The top ten moderated newsgroups: group articles last month posting delay ===== =================== ============ comp.dcom.telecom 529 ~1 day misc.handicap 481 ~1 day comp.mail.maps 362 ~1 day sci.military 324 ~1 day comp.sys.sun 310 1 to 3 WEEKS rec.music.gaffa 275 ~1 day comp.archives 270 ~1 day comp.virus 234 a few days rec.guns 176 ~1 day soc.religion.christian 175 a few days If I have underestimate the posting delay for some of these groups please correct me; I doubt I have underestimated all of them. Something is seriously wrong with comp.sys.sun. I've been trying to gently suggest to Bob Greene, the moderator of comp.sys.sun that he might want to consider possibly making the Usenet newsgroup side be unmoderated while still doing his moderation thing for the mailing list side; in other words, like rec.arts.sf-lovers. The unusually high posting delay, which prevents information interchange on the newsgroup, is only one reason. Some others are his tendency to drop messages in the bit bucket instead of returning them with a rejection note (or sometimes dropping them for no reason at all), and the general uselessness of his moderation. Sure, he's been doing better than Lefevre, but that doesn't say much. He has admitted to me that his moderation consists of rejecting (dropping) junk articles, and posting the rest in "first come first served order". For this we wait 1 to 3 weeks? Unsurprisingly, he has not been receptive to my suggestion of unmoderating the newsgroup. Any suggestions on what to do about it? --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!jef What you don't know can hurt you, only you won't know it.