Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 3/23/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!mark 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 Article-I.D.: cbosgd.242 Posted: Mon Aug 13 17:33:25 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 02:18:48 EDT References: <2949@alice.UUCP>, <74@sask.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 36 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