Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 / QGSI 2.0; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!qubix!msc 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 Article-I.D.: qubix.1598 Posted: Thu Feb 7 14:08:46 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 09:02:27 EST References: <347@wjvax.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, San Jose, CA Lines: 30 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. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@qubix.UUCP, qubix!msc@decwrl.ARPA ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!qubix!msc, ...{amd,ihnp4,ittvax}!qubix!msc