lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (10/29/84)
For those of you who still don't believe that money is being wasted by many non-moderated newsgroups... how many more times do you need to see the answer to "what were the real names of Batman and Robin?" in net.misc? How many more will we see? --Lauren--
lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick) (10/31/84)
> For those of you who still don't believe that money is being wasted > by many non-moderated newsgroups... how many more times do you need > to see the answer to "what were the real names of Batman and Robin?" > in net.misc? > > How many more will we see? > > --Lauren-- The solution is not moderation but TO GET THOSE IDIOTS TO RE-READ THE NETIQUETTE DOCUMENTS and LEARN TO USE 'r' RATHER THAN 'f' !!!!! Moderation does not cure the problem; it merely alleviates a symptom. -- The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford {amd,decwrl,sun,idi,ittvax}!qubix!lab You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.
gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) (11/03/84)
> For those of you who still don't believe that money is being wasted > by many non-moderated newsgroups... how many more times do you need > to see the answer to "what were the real names of Batman and Robin?" > in net.misc? I'd hate to have to expose the hypocrisy of those who complain about the waste in unmoderated newsgroups who also appear in the ``Top 25'' news submitters with an accumulated individual total of over 30K bytes in two weeks. [oooops] -- (It's only a model) Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!gam [ This is just me talking. ]
chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) (11/04/84)
In article <461@amdahl.UUCP> gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) writes: >I'd hate to have to expose the hypocrisy of those who complain about >the waste in unmoderated newsgroups who also appear in the ``Top 25'' >news submitters with an accumulated individual total of over 30K bytes >in two weeks. I'm glad you didn't expose that hypocrisy, Gordon, because you would also have to discuss whether or not the top 25 posters has some positive value to the net, or whether they are simply posting useless complaints with no valid basis. I'm glad neither of us feel this is neccessary. chuq -- From the Department of Bistromatics: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA I'd know those eyes from a million years away....
lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (11/05/84)
Good old gam seems to be shooting off at the mouth again, in the manner I'm beginning to accept as normal for him. First of all gammy old boy, the appearance of people in the top 25 means nothing if the postings are meaningful. There are lots of technical newsgroups that are useful to the net, and you'll never find multiple postings from me in net.games or net.singles, for example. I tend to stick to the technical groups, with an occasional net.misc or net.flame thrown in. The stats can, by the way, be broken massively by the ARPA gateways, where digests are sometimes broken up into separate messages, and volume figures can be distorted by the inclusion of one newswire story in a message. But as long as we're on the subject, even with the ARPA distortions to the Usenet stats, I only occasionally show up in the top 25, so I really don't know what you're bitching about. Try act like an adult. --Lauren--