malcolm@ee.UUCP (01/19/85)
Why does everybody talking about moderated newsgroups assume that each subject will have only one moderator? I would love to see a few people take the "important" articles out of an unmoderated newsgroup and post a digest. There is no reason that more than one digest couldn't be made up of the same material. Each one would have a flavor determined by its editor. Net.singles is a good example. I would love to see somebody put together a digest with all the discussions in net.singles minus anything that relates to Jeff Sargeant. There is no reason why somebody else couldn't put together a digest that dropped anything that didn't have a "christian" outlook. This is exactly what happens today in publishing....everybody basically has access to the same material....it's just that different editors see fit to publish different segments of it. So maybe all the unmoderated stuff in Usenet could be sent out over stargate and ONLY let people who have sworn their typing fingers away have the key and allow them to generate a moderated newsgroup? (This is assuming that there is enough bandwidth left during the day for the fluff.) Objections? Malcolm