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vk@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (vivek.kalra) writes:
>But isn't that what happens in *every* moderated news group?

Not quite -- in most (all?) moderated newsgroups, people mail
submissions to the moderator who filters them.  (Brad may trawl
rec.humor for funny pieces?) In comp.archives, the moderator trawls a
large selection of news looking for appropriate articles and reposts
them after some editing. (addition of Archive-name:,
Archive-directory:, the new verification stuff, occasional deletion of
the text of a patch or source).  There's a difference -- Ed can
probably give us stats on how much filtering he does manually and the
amount of filtering done automatically.

comp.archives has grown a lot since it started -- for your amusement,
some stats (compression is usually 50-60%) from a comp.archives
archive are enclosed.  I can understand Ed's desire to convert it to a
commercial service or a funded service.  The alternative is to find a
new moderator or moderators.  For example, I doubt that anyone at
UToronto, either in the CS dept or Information Science faculty would
be seriously interested in actually paying money for newsgroups like
msen.*, even if they contain pointers to useful ftp'able software.
One of these days, maybe we'll convince the University that
information is valuable even if it is in electronic form. (We *know*
that information in an electronic form definitely can't be more
valuable than the paper form, of course!) And that they should start
spending a small fraction of what they spend on libraries on an
electronic archive.

	Mark.
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