hes@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer) (02/04/91)
I read both comp.dcom.telecom and alt.dcom.telecom because I'm interested in the subject, not because of posting policies. I'll cancel one (or both) of my subscriptions when I no longer find it worth my time to read that subscription. I suspect that most net readers behave in approximately the same manner, and so news.groups will flourish or decay in response to this "vote with your feet" behavior of the readers/posters. The bottom line is that as long as there is interest in reading/ posting in comp.dcom.telecom it proves that PAT is doing an acceptable job as moderator. Likewise if all the readership and posting shifts to another group, then that would prove that PAT is doing an unacceptable job. --henry schaffer n c state univ P.S. My personal view is that the moderator appending a signed note is *not* the same as "editing a submission to change it". From a technical point of view, entering it as a separate posting would generally either lose the context or increase net bandwidth, and so appending is better. I don't always agree with PAT, but his opinions are signed, so I can take them or leave them. Also, I haven't seen much wonderful or interesting material on alt.dcom. telecom, and so I wonder a bit about the controversy over material rejected by PAT.