werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (12/16/85)
the recent flood of this group with meta-discussion, flames, insults, and other inappropriate garble (anything but sources), partially caused by the lacking feature of the posting-software to prevent follow-ups to net.sources, leads me to request this. Having to wade through several hundred articles is a good enough argument for me. Note that this is NOT censorship as such, as I don't mind all the bozo back-and-forth discussion/insult-fest in group net.news.group, which I have long since unsubscribed. If someone cares to start a moderated group for that topic, I might consider finding time for it - not that anyone should care, really, if I try to contribute my thoughts on related topics, or not .... I don't mind using the N-key a few times, but hundreds of times ???? Growl, ---Werner
wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705) (12/18/85)
In article <2722@ut-ngp.UUCP> werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes: >the recent flood of this group with meta-discussion, flames, insults, >and other inappropriate garble (anything but sources), partially caused >by the lacking feature of the posting-software to prevent follow-ups to >net.sources, leads me to request this. Having to wade through several >hundred articles is a good enough argument for me. So read mod.sources if you don't like net.sources. Followups in net.sources are a desirable feature - unless everyone starts posting bug-free-portable-everywhere-so-terrific-you-wouldn't-ask-questions software, followups are needed. I agree there is too much random discussion here (viz. this article), but there was an attempt a while back to separate net.sources and net.sources.wanted. It failed, but mod.sources developed. If you used "rn", you could look at a list of article titles, and you could automatically kill off discussions that you thought were boring. -- # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G-202, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs
perl@rdin.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) (12/18/85)
There already IS a moderated sources group -- mod.sources. If
you don't like what's going on in net.sources, read mod.sources
instead.
Robert Perlberg
Resource Dynamics Inc.
New York
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