Re: PC Posts

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From: Roger Davis
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 23:09

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> Since I can't do it I probably shouldn't even mention it, but...
> Would there be any possiblity that this newsgroup could be moderated?
> That way only one poor soul would have to endure the posts from PC users
> about MS Windows.
 
> Michael H. Lambert
> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Over the last couple of weeks I've been sending personal e-mail to
each person making such a posting -- perhaps if another ten or twenty
people in this group did the same these morons would realize that flooding
our newsgroup with garbage is not worth getting their mailboxes flooded
with nasty messages. Posting polite requests to the various PC groups
seems to have no effect whatsoever.

Another possible solution might be changing the name of the newsgroup.
I know that comp.windows.news is a perfectly rational choice for a group
discussing NeWS, but there seem to be far too many novice users out there
who think comp.windows.news means 'any old news about Windows', which is
certainly understandable from their point of view. I'm not offering any
suggestions here myself, but maybe someone else would like to?
-- 
Roger Davis
University of Hawaii/SOEST
rbd@soest.hawaii.edu

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