For what reasons would you prefer to see a moderated group versus an unmoderated group? is it to prevent comercial spamming? or to limit extraneous messages that don't belong in the group? Because my impression is moderated groups are first harder to create and second harder to maintain since somebody has to moderate the group. Other than that the writeup looks good. Did you post this and it never went anywhere? or were you about to post it and didn't? -Paul Gregory Martin Pfeil wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, R. Paul McCarty wrote: > > > I think the group purchase messages are fine in this group, but I think > > we would scare fewer people from this list if it were moved to a > > newsgroup. Even if some people would prefer to have a mailing list, > > what is stopping the formation of say: > > > > comp.sys.wearable? > > > > I'd try to set it up myself, but I think you have to write up a full > > page justification and get people to vote on it. Which smacks of work. > > I've already written one up, but I got too busy to do anything with it. > It's on my Web site if you want to take it from there. The only change > I'd suggest is possibly making it moderated. > > -- > Gregory Martin Pfeil Programmer-Misogynist-BUFH-MIRC > mailto:http://falcon.jmu.edu/~pfeilgm/ > ICQ#: 235067 -- R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator /
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