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Re: newsgroup comp.sys.wearables

Besides preventing phone-sex adds, moderation prevents flames, and allows
things like removing posts that contain nothing other than the words
"remove", for example. ;)

Yes, its a fair amount of work, but it means the group stays focused on
the topic and people don't have to sort through extraneous posts to get to
what they want. If the bot is set up well, it shouldn't mean much work at
all.

-Paul

BTW, if everyone would prefer I not discuss this proposed newsgroup here I
will respond in private.

R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator /  / x52059
317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
Computers don't make mistakes;what they do,they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Jason R. Pascucci wrote:

> Why moderate? It's not the sort of group to attract major phone-sex ads, or
> something like that, and most of the other comp.sys groups are not moderated.
> Don't bother. Free Speech and your Time. :)
> 
> -JRP
> 
> 
> R. Paul McCarty wrote:
> 
> > I don't know how many messages between Gregory Pfeil and myself have been
> > copied to the wear-hard group, but we have been trying to get a
> > newsgroup started on usenet for people on this mailing list that would
> > prefer a newsgroup format to our discussions and to attract people
> > interested in discussing wearables who aren't aware of this mailing list.
> > This would also answer the need some people have expressed for archives of
> > the list.
> >
> > The initial RFD (Request For Discussion) never went to vote, but
> > there were suggestions that the group be moderated, rather than
> > unmoderated.  I've revised the RFD to request a moderated group and I
> > think if it goes to a vote we should get it added without any problems.
> > I've put the RFD up at:
> >
> >   http://reg16.admin.rochester.edu/~mccarty/comp.sys.wearables.html
> >
> > Right now, Gregory and I are listed as moderators and I would like to add
> > some additional moderators to the request to spread out the work of
> > approving messages.  I'm also looking at robot-moderator (proc-mail)
> > scripts to automatically moderate 90% of the messages so moderating the
> > group might entail getting a few messages a day which need to be looked at
> > and approved if they are relevant to the group.  If you would like to be
> > added as a moderator, please let me know and I will add you to the RFD.
> >
> > Also, if there are suggestions about changes to the RFD before I
> > submit this please let me know.  I will post this sometime next week and
> > then about 2 weeks later there will be a vote.
> >
> > Also, if someone would like to host the site where we can automatically
> > moderate the group with a script that would be fantastic, otherwise I will
> > have to find an account somewhere where I can set up the bot for a long
> > period of time.
> >
> > Thanks for any feedback.
> > -Paul
> >
> > R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator / / x52059
> > 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
> > Computers don't make mistakes;what they do,they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH
> 
> 
> 

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