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Re: Proposal: shouldn't can.infohighway be moderated?

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From: Chris Lewis
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <DHLuyx.M3A@revcan.ca>, David Blackwood <dave@revcan.ca> wrote:
>In article <DHJ2wF.Cy3@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>,
>Chris Lewis <clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> wrote:

>>In your comments, please try to distinguish between the desirability of
>>making the change, and the difficulty of making the change.  Yes, 100%
>>compliance is not going to happen.  But, it doesn't matter.  All we
>>should be concerned about is desirability.

>I do agree that a moderated newsgroup on the subject is desirable but I
>disagree with your suggestion that compliance doesn't matter.  It does
>matter.  Most of us don't want to shut anyone out, we just want to keep
>the postings on topic and improve the signal to noise ratio.

Fixing it is only a short email message to your news admin away.

>A viable alternative (albeit one with an unwieldy name) is to create a
>new group can.infohighway.moderated and to leave the existing group
>unchanged for whatever broader range of topic users choose to post
>there.

I would like to reclaim the use of the existing forum which has become
impossible to use.  can.infobahn will still continue to exist unmoderated.
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From: clewis@bnr.ca (Chris Lewis)
Subject: Re: Proposal: shouldn't can.infohighway be moderated?
Date: 1995/11/07
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