From - Thu Sep 25 08:59:45 1997 Path: netaxs.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!139.130.235.93!news.telstra.net!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.cc.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!yallara!pfg From: pfg@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Paul Francis Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: request new group: Comp.sys.apple2.idiotic.flamewars. Date: 25 Sep 1997 07:17:11 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <60d35n$g1m$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> References: <341E33A4.961B0BF1@usa.net> <34207E6F.51B2@grin.net> <5vqe05$id7$1@darla.visi.com> <3420c5ce.3656227@news.execpc.com> <5vrb6o$ggk$1@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <34216D16.41C6@dowland.engr.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au NNTP-Posting-User: pfg X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Xref: netaxs.com comp.sys.apple2:122568 ut551@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Bruce R. Baker) writes: >Well, how about a moderated usegroup? That is the only way we will keep >the flames off the message board. THis has been discussed on Genie, I >know. >-- Bruce from Houston >Have a good day and God bless. I think that the trouble would be in finding a truly impartial moderator. For example, I shudder to think of Nathan Mates getting moderation control, and some of the other are also emminently usuitable. For example, with the recent Tangle Tales topic, there have some who are virently against it (since it is a perceived piracy). Should we grant moderation control to someone like that? Myself, whilst I am against commercial pirating, I see nothing morally wrong in having a copy of a an old apple game when the company that made it no longer exists. Would we want a moderater who would delete these sort of topics just because he was biased in one direction? Moderation requires a great deal of thought, and is usually the last resort [in the case of retro-moderation of an existing unmoderated newsgroup]. -- Paul Gilbert | pfg@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au Bach App Sci, Bach Eng | The opinions expressed are my own, all my own, and Year 4, RMIT Melbourne | as such will contain no references to small furry Australia | creatures from Alpha Centauri.