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In article <DHuH2t.6Bn@revcan.ca>, David Blackwood <dave@revcan.ca> wrote:
>In article <47odbn$lnj@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca>, Chris Lewis <clewis@bnr.ca> wrote:
>>Fixing it is only a short email message to your news admin away.

>If only this were true we probably wouldn't be having this discussion
>now.

It is true Dave.

>In fact, as you and I both know, most news admin tasks are not any
>one individual's responsibility but are done on a casual basis by
>volunteers.  Many sites are, to be charitable, less than well run. :-)

What you're forgetting Dave, is that it is going to require the admin to
do _something_ no matter what we decide on.  This is not a choice
between the admin doing nothing, and the admin doing something.

If we decide to create a moderated group, or to moderate an existing group,
the admin is going to have to do almost _exactly_ the _same_ thing:

If we decide to create can.infohighway.moderated, the admin will have to
execute (given INN): 

	ctlinnd newgroup can.infohighway.moderated m

If we decide to moderate can.infohighway, the admin will have to
execute (given INN): 

	ctlinnd changegroup can.infohighway m

Now, tell me that there is a significant difference between the two.  Tell
me that a poorly run system is any more likely to do the former than the
latter.

Those systems so poorly run to not be able to issue a changegroup aren't going
to be well run enough to do a newgroup _either_.

So this issue is irrelevant.

Besides, on those systems that have paid attention enough to realize that I'm
doing trustworthy group admin in can.*, will have instructed their software
to listen to me, and do what I tell it ;-)
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