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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: The Feeling Of Impending Doom and What You Can Do About It
Message-ID: <242@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 17:33:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 13 17:33:25 1984
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Having fast turnaround is nice, but you pay for it dearly with high
phone bills and a low signal-to-noise ratio.  I've unsubscribed from
a lot of good groups because I simply don't have the time to wade
through all the stuff that's there.

I think we're going to need a lot more moderated groups in the near
future.  I'm not trying to take away from the existing unmoderated
groups, just to put up a moderated version for those of us who want
a lower volume with more content/article.

There are other issues, too.  If we ever get to use alternate carriers
for news, like satellite links, there are likely to be legal constraints
on what we can broadcast - some satellite companies will probably insist
that nothing can go over the link without going through a moderator,
to prevent anyone from posting credit card numbers or nuke plans and
holding that company liable.

I would like to see parallel mod.all newsgroups created for all of
the high volume newsgroups (see Rick Adams' recent statistics in
net.news) and moderators found for each of them.  For example,
net.unix-wizards is a high volume group, we could create mod.unix-wizards
which either contains things filtered through the moderator, or things
the moderator gleans off net.unix-wizards and deems appropriate to
the mod newsgroup.  Ditto for net.singles, net.jokes, and so on.

To this end, if you read one of the following newsgroups regularly
and would like to be the moderator for a moderated version of it (not
to replace the unmoderated version, unless it dies on its own), please
drop me a note.

net.singles, net.flame, net.jokes, net.politics, net.unix-wizards,
net.wanted, net.religion, net.misc, net.audio, net.philosophy, net.women,
net.unix, net.games.rogue, net.movies,net.startrek, net.micro, net.music,
net.lang.c, net.cooks, net.genera/followup, net.what-did-I-forget?

	Mark