tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) (10/12/89)
I've been getting a lot of hate mail, most of which is automatic,
by self-appointed moderators of alt.sources for a comment I
posted there. And I'm pretty tired of it.
I CAN'T CANCEL THE DAMN MESSAGE SO GET OFF MY BACK!!!
I've tried and our news software is in some state of hosery
which disallows this practice. If you think alt.sources
should be restricted, moderate it. If not, stop bitching.
In any case, please lay off. I didn't subscribe to alt.sourced.d
and had forgotten it existed. It was not intentional misuse.
I'm tired of fighting off the dogs. Cut it out.
--tom
Tom Christiansen {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist
Convex Computer Corporation tchrist@convex.COM
"EMACS belongs in <sys/errno.h>: Editor too big!"news@bbn.COM (News system owner ID) (10/17/89)
tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) writes:
< ... If you think alt.sources
< should be restricted, moderate it. If not, stop bitching.
Funny, I thought alt.sources was supposed to be _un_ moderated, and
was created by the people who thought that moderating mod.sources was
facist.
USENET is a slow-moving parody of itself. Quiz question: how many
times has a non-moderated *.source* group been quazi-post-facto
moderated by someone canceling non-source postings?
< In any case, please lay off. I didn't subscribe to alt.sourced.d
< and had forgotten it existed. It was not intentional misuse.
< I'm tired of fighting off the dogs. Cut it out.
"A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flaming." -- Henry Spencer
(who said it better than I could).
-- Paul Placeway <PPlaceway@bbn.com>tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (10/17/89)
Guys, I was playing the devil's advocate when I apparently suggested
moderating alt.sources; I was hoping to spark some comment on how
undesirable this would be. It's true: I committed the cardinal sin of
email by omitting my ``:-)'' punctuation. Forgive me. I really do NOT
want to see this happen.
--tom
Tom Christiansen {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist
Convex Computer Corporation tchrist@convex.COM
"EMACS belongs in <sys/errno.h>: Editor too big!"allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (10/19/89)
As quoted from <46988@bbn.COM> by news@bbn.COM (News system owner ID): +--------------- | tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) writes: | < ... If you think alt.sources | < should be restricted, moderate it. If not, stop bitching. | | Funny, I thought alt.sources was supposed to be _un_ moderated, and | was created by the people who thought that moderating mod.sources was | facist. +--------------- Actually, it was created by people who thought that moderating net.sources was fascist. It is worth noting that I support alt.sources, however... moderation is not for all sources or for all times, and it carries certain implied duties in the monds of posters on the part of the moderator which are guaranteed to slow things down. But unmoderation, as has been made obvious by our "friend" Dunc, has its down points. I think we can find ways to deal with the occasional Dunc (or, for that matter, a Bob Webber), though, and the existing means seem to work for other offenders. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@NCoast.ORG uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu bsa@telotech.uucp 161-7070 (MCI), ALLBERY (Delphi), B.ALLBERY (GEnie), comp-sources-misc@backbone [comp.sources.misc-related mail should go ONLY to comp-sources-misc@<backbone>] *Third party vote-collection service: send mail to allbery@uunet.uu.net (ONLY)*