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From: gcrum@aludra.usc.edu (Gary Crum)
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Subject: Re: comp.sys.sun performance
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Date: 7 Feb 90 23:19:01 GMT
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In-reply-to: rgreene@wild.rice.EDU's message of 5 Feb 90 20:54:06 GMT

In article <4579@brazos.Rice.edu> rgreene@wild.rice.EDU (Robert D. Greene) writes:

   Finally, I would beg of everyone here that feels compelled to reply to this,
   including Jef, to mail directly to me. I feel that this discussion is best
   limited to private email and not to the net in general.

Naturally.

Here's my proposal: Make comp.sys.sun unmoderated, and if there is a
volunteer to do filtering, have a moderated group also.  The content
of the moderated group could be the "best of" the unmoderated group.
That arrangement seems quite natural and superior to this situation
and the comp.sys.mac/comp.sys.mac.digest pair.  Some problems I can
think of are network capacity limit and the power/policing desires of
moderators, but the capacity problem is addressed when network
speeds increase as fast as USENET volume.

With unmoderated groups, questions often elicit redundant followups.
That result is not often obtrusive, though, and I think the solution of
email-me-and-I'll-summarize is better than having one swamped human moderator.

Hey, given the arrangment I suggest, newsreaders could even be extended to
know the relationship between the groups, and readers could choose which
group (moderated or unmoderated) they want to read based on their
work queue (for example).  The news reader could "catch up" the other
group based on date of writing (assuming the moderator would leave that
information _somewhere_ in the articles if he/she must change the Date:
line to be the date of posting by the moderator as has been done in
comp.sys.sun).

Cheers, to the epitome of free speech, USENET.
Gary