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Article #2486Re: Proposal: shouldn't can.infohighway be moderated?
From: Chris Lewis
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa33e,21c13aa35976eb7e X-Google-Attributes: gidfa33e,public From: clewis@bnr.ca (Chris Lewis) Subject: Re: Proposal: shouldn't can.infohighway be moderated? Date: 1995/11/07 Message-ID: <47odbn$lnj@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> X-Deja-AN: 118851408 references: <47c0c4$1e0e@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca> <47ea2g$h5s@felix.junction.net> <DHJ2wF.Cy3@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> <DHLuyx.M3A@revcan.ca> organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd. newsgroups: can.config