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CL>I look for clear, obvious, and energetic support for a group.  I don't
CL>give a damn what the content is (unless the subject matter is forbidden
CL>by my company's policies - in which case I simply don't participate).
CL>That usually means 30-40 or more posted responses spread over a week or
CL>more, and a group proponent willing to keep pushing the proposal.  But
CL>it's not an exact number.  If I see 40 messages from people who were
CL>bullied into it, or were mislead, or were inordinately lobbied,
CL>I'll ignore them because they don't represent the real situation.

        Thankyou Chris.

        Do you mind if I take a 'time out' to make sure everyone can
find and then include can.config in their mail subscription list?  From
visiting several computer users, some are a quite unsure of how to
find other conferences, especially if they are interfacing with a BBS
which has internet newsgroups assigned to conference numbers.  I just
want to give everyone who is interested, the time to sort out this
problem.  This was the sole reason for posting the 'pre-RFD' which
indicated my intentions and where the discussion will take place and
then asked for people to let me know if they were encountering any
problems finding Can.config.   I'm sorry that you don't agree with this
initial proceedure.

Expecting 30 to 40 postings over a week may be expecting too
much for the type of newsgroup I am proposing so I will
need much more time to find more Canadians interested in supporting
this newsgroup.  Unfortunately, the way rec.nude is now, many people
may not find it interesting from the naturist point of view to stick
around reading rec.nude and catch the post I made there.

Two years ago Rec.nude had few problems like what we are seeing now,
especially X-posted off-topic messages that account for between
30 to 60% of the messages we have to wade though now.  It's really
quite maddening how this nice conference has degenerated and as
news administrators, you are bound to stand by and let it happen.

This brings up another pre-RFD topic that has to do with
moderation such as being proposed in rec.nude and in the mailing
list discussion group.  Can we institute a 3 moderator system that
would be used to remove obviously off-topic subjects, especially
topics that come from 20 other newsgroups X-posted in one message?
My question is about how doable is it for a Can.* group, and if
it is possible, can you do the implementation of a moderated group?
If you are unable to take a look at setting up a moderated group,
could you recommend someone who would check this out?

This is very very important, after seeing rec.nude getting trashed...
I don't want to go through with any RFD without knowing how hard
or easy it is to get a moderated group.  I prefer to do an
RFD on a moderated naturist newsgroup instead of an unmoderated
group as was my original intention.

Sorry for being long winded...

    ...I am trying to avoid future problems such as the ones
that plague rec.nude.
 

Dave Fleming
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