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From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: Traffic in present moderated newsgroups
Message-ID: <1598@qubix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 14:08:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 14:08:46 1985
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Here are my opinions of the moderated groups I look at:

net.annouce - very valuable,  no duplication fromn anywhere else.
mod.map.*   - very valuable,  stops others from posting none map
		stuff.
mod.movies  - a waste.  contains duplicates of some of the longer
		(and better) reviews that appear in net.movies.
		This group has upped the kbytes for no purpose.
		net.movies is useful group  with very little
		stupid stuff and manageable volume.

mod.std.c   - useful. Has a *lot* of material.  To much for me
		since I'm not that interested but there are
		none of the religious wars of net.lang.c.

mod.singles - barely useful.  Has no duplicate articles from net.singles.
		Has a few anonymous articles that otherwise may not be seen.
		Has a few other articles too but I couldn't see abandoning
		net.singles for it.

I believe that the only way to provide the service of a moderated group, when
both net.? and mod.? exist, is to make the moderated group be simply a list
of useful articles in the net.? group.  This isn't a new idea.  Others
proposed it but it was shot down by the powers that be who claim that
moderation is needed to reduce the traffic.  Well so far it has done the
exact opposite.
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