rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (10/20/84)
> 1) Mod.whatever is NOT replacing any newsgroup. > It is simply an alternative for those who wish > to have the chosen moderator do some 'n'-keying > for them. No one's personal rights to speech > are being infringed... I would agree, but for the fact that a couple of the moderated groups have started up with stated policies of NOT duplicating any material from the corresponding net.* group--this makes the mod.* group a separate entity rather than a synopsis or distillation. I like the mod.* approach better than I like the "no duplicates" policy on top of it. At another level, although I have some minor doubts about the mod.* approach, I think it's worth a try and I wish people would give it a chance to see how it will work out. Make suggestions, but can the "censorship and fascism" crap. We need to be able to carry on some sensible discussion on how to make it work, without all the noise in the discussion. Perhaps it's time--in fact, it's already been suggested (in either misc or flame)--to create: mod.mod moderated discussion of merits of moderated groups -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind.