reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) (07/08/87)
Nobody has a *right* to post anything to the net anywhere. Posting is a privilege. Moderators are too important to be elected. Their role is not one of "refereee" but of manager, editor, and shaper. I read rec.arts.movies.reviews BECAUSE Evelyn is the moderator, because I like what she chooses to put there. Her identity as moderator is as important as the identity of the editor of the New Yorker. The alternative backbone exists for people who are sufficiently convinced that the standard groups are managed incorrectly to try to start their own. If you don't like rec.arts.movies.reviews you are welcome to start alt.movie-reviews, or whatever you want to call it (except that alt doesn't like hierarchical names)
allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (07/12/87)
As quoted from <10792@decwrl.DEC.COM> by reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid): +--------------- | If you don't like rec.arts.movies.reviews you are welcome to start | alt.movie-reviews, or whatever you want to call it (except that alt doesn't | like hierarchical names) +--------------- It's not that we don't _like_ them, it's just that with 5 newsgroups it doesn't make sense to structure everything hierarchically. When alt grows a bit in terms of newsgroups, we can consider restructuring -- but do it before it's so big that we screw everything up (a major failing of the recent Usenet switcheroo!). -- [Copyright 1987 Brandon S. Allbery, all rights reserved] \ ncoast 216 781 6201 [Redistributable only if redistribution is subsequently permitted.] \ 2400 bd. Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{ames,harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,{well,ihnp4}!hoptoad,cbosgd}!ncoast!allbery <<The opinions herein are those of my cat, therefore they must be correct!>>