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1 total messages Started by Mike Wexler Tue, 22 Mar 1988 00:07
Re: Comp.sys.suns.unmod
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Author: Mike Wexler
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 00:07
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In article <1607@thorin.cs.unc.edu> davisy@DOPEY.CS.UNC.EDU (York
Davis) writes: 
>		a) posting via the moderated newsgroup is slow
>		   -- the moderator lets messages sit around
>		   too long before posting to comp.sys.sun.
>		b) moderated newsgroups cannot be read and 
>		   processed on an article-by-article basis with 
>	   	   rn and various other news-reading programs.
>		c) Many people, myself included, object to
>		   moderation on principle and to the moderation
>		   in comp.sys.sun in particular.
>2) I suggest comp.sys.sun.unmod as a name for this group.

Problem b is not because the newsgroup is moderated.  It is because it
is digest format.  The are moderated groups that are not in digest
format(comp.sources.unix,comp.compilers).  I think problem a is at
least partially due to the digestification.  I remember the moderator
say that he wanted to up the digest size so that he would catch up
with his backlog quicker.  I agree that digests are not a got format
for USENET(they may be for mail/ARPANET).  I therefore recommend that
comp.sys.sun be "un-digestified".  This should fix these two problems.
I suspect the third problem would not be as bad if the first two are
"fixed".  I am also against have two groups for the same topic.  I
therefore recommend that if most people would like the list to be
undigestified, they vote against a new newsgroup and for
undigestification.
-- 
Mike Wexler(wyse!mikew)    Phone: (408)433-1000 x1330
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