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Article #6467Re: Proposed Criteria for dc.general.moderated: Rough Draft #2
From: dick
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:00
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This gets us a long way to resolution of these problems. Thanks Keith. Keith A. Glass wrote: > Thanks to Dave Aronson for some ideas here: > > ***** > Proposed guidelines for moderation of proposed newsgroup > "dc.general.moderated" > > The purpose of dc.general.moderated is to provide a forum for > discussion of items of general interest specific to the > Washington, DC, Metropolitan area, in an atmosphere free > of excessive cross-posts. > > The intent is to robo-moderate the group using the following > criteria: > > Any acceptable message must have: > > - No more than 4 newsgroups total > (should weed out a lot of spam) > - No *.general other than dc, va, md, balt, pg, mont, or wv > (amendable if other local hierarchies appear) > - Posted to no other dc.* groups > (if it's not of general interest, why post it here ??) > - Not be cross-posted to alt.test > (to stop the occaisional net.joker) > > Any message that does not meet the criteria will be robomoderated. > > Changes to bot moderation policy must be approved by the current > administrator(s) of the dc.hierarchy > ***** > > OK, there's draft two. I honestly did not want to do a "takeover", > I just had the idea that maybe we ought to try to conserve some > bandwidth.... if anyone ELSE remembers the concept of bandwidth > conservation.
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