page@ulowell.UUCP (01/24/87)
lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) wrote in article <3830@sdcrdcf.UUCP>: >Furthermore, the net gods have not yet made a decision about turning on >moderated groups that aren't mod.* groups. The above message may or may >not turn out to be true. At a meeting of Usenet admins during USENIX, it was decided to start the renaming of the mod.* groups. This means mod.amiga.sources will become a comp group, but will still be moderated. It also means that mod.amiga and comp.sys.amiga will be merged into comp.sys.amiga, and will be moderated. I do not know the timetable for the changeover, but expect to see it sometime soon. Some groups may convert faster than others (I expect the amiga, mac, and sources groups to put up a fight). Furthermore, any discussion of the change should occur in news.groups, NOT comp.sys.amiga, so followups should go there. ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. ulowell!page, page@ulowell.CSNET
cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (01/26/87)
In article <972@ulowell.edu>, page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes: > > ... It also means > that mod.amiga and comp.sys.amiga will be merged into comp.sys.amiga, > and will be moderated. > -- > Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. ulowell!page, page@ulowell.CSNET Please, tell me it isn't so! No, I am not worried about "censorship" or other people controlling my messages, I am worried that every moderated group on usenet is a friggin black hole. I am sure there is some statistical equation to describe the chances that a message will make it to any point on the net, especially to the moderators machine, and then make it out again. Frankly I think it is damn near zero. Has *any* moderated group on this network *ever* worked? Not that I know of, and why force umpty ump thousand people to go with out any sort of information because one site lost an RP06. My vote, if there is an ice cube's chance in hell that it will matter, is to keep two groups. One moderated and one not moderated, that way there will at least be a backup group available. -- --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
eric@ektools.UUCP (01/28/87)
In article <12089@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis) writes: >In article <972@ulowell.edu>, page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes: >> ... It also means >> that mod.amiga and comp.sys.amiga will be merged into comp.sys.amiga, >> and will be moderated. >> -- >> Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. ulowell!page, page@ulowell.CSNET >Please, tell me it isn't so! >My vote, if there is an ice cube's chance in hell >that it will matter, is to keep two groups. One moderated and one not >moderated, that way there will at least be a backup group available. >-- >--Chuck McManis I would also like to add my vote in agreement! eric... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Eric M. Kleinpaste ...seismo!rochester!kodak!ektools!eric Eastman Kodak Company %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
berry@well.UUCP (01/29/87)
.edu> <12089@sun.uucp> <531@ektools.UUCP> Sender: Reply-To: berry@well.UUCP (John Thomas Berry) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA Keywords: Please, please, please do not make comp.sys.amiga a moderated group. That would stifle a tremendous amount of important discussion of vital information which is simply not available elsewhere.