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Re: Proposed Criteria for dc.general.moderated: Rough Draft #2

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From: dick
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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Subject: Re: Proposed Criteria for dc.general.moderated: Rough Draft #2
Date: 1998/08/31
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