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Ian Angus <ianangus@angustel.ca> writes:

>c. The name "can.infohighway.moderated" (or anything 
>similar) will, as several people have pointed out, simply 
>frighten off participants. More seriously, creating it would 
>involve abandoning a perfectly good group with a perfectly 
>good mandate and name -- can.infohighway would simply become 
>another crossposters dumping ground, a name with no meaning.

Ahah! So, you want to moderate something, but you don't want to draw 
attention to that fact. It seems to me that if the support you claim for 
moderation is really out there, then the moniker will not deter people 
from using a newsgroup. However, if your fear is well-grounded, and 
people are scared off by a ".moderated" suffix, then you have provided 
the best argument so far for leaving can.infohighway alone.

The only reasonable inference one can draw from your remark is that you 
would like a newsgroup that moderated without warning its users of that 
very significant fact. That's a frightening perspective, one that I do 
not share.