From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf) Subject: Re: Splitting comp.os.linux, again Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1992 22:42:16 GMT
In article <1992Oct25.175519.16087@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>iwj@cam-orl.co.uk (Ian Jackson) writes:
>[Ian states his belief that *.announce should be unmoderated]
>
>I disagree entirely. c.o.l.announce _needs_ to be moderated, otherwise
>there is almost no possibility to keep the inevitable discussions out of
>the group. If you think that everybody will either put a proper
>followup-to to their announcements, or edit the newsgroups header for
>their followups, you'd better take a look at alt.sources. It doesn't
>work there and it ain't gonna work here.
>
>
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I second that. If we want the *.announce subgroup to be for
announcements only (as it should be), it has to be moderated. I don't
think moderating it would a time-consuming task, as it is expected to
be a very low-volume group (look at comp.windows.x.announce).