Cell Relay Archive

[albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com]

As long as the disruptions are limited to a day or so here and there, as they
seem to have been, I'd vote against having a moderator. Moderating a news
group is a real labor of love, and in the best of times the moderators
experience burnout sooner than later. There are delays in posting, the
moderator goes on vacation and the news group dies, etc. etc. Also, in this
sort of group that tends not to attract pre-teens with nothing better to do
than disrupting interesting conversations, perhaps a moderator is not so
important in terms of filtering the content of the posts.

If comp.dcom.lans.ethernet can survive without a moderator, this group should
as well. No? That group has its share of pre-teens.

Bert
manfredi@arl.bna.boeing.com


In article <36348596.A5790F5@lucent.com>,
  "ronald h. davis" <ronaldd@lucent.com> wrote:
> there are one, or likely more than one, pranksters roaming around
> internet newsgroups and flooding them with forged posts.  the number
> of such posts literally reaches into the thousands in some newsgroups.
> granted there have been the occasional promotion of adult oriented
> services in this newsgroup but the number of such posts has been small
> enough as to not be a problem.  however, in this case it appears that
> pranksters are trying to bring down this newsgroup by forging posts
> and cancelling posts from other which is causing me to raise the issue
> for discussion here as to whether we should make this newsgroup a
> moderated one.
>
> comments?  suggestions as to how/whether this should be brought to a
> vote and implemented?
>
> --
>   __  ______  __  / __/ |       lucent technologies, naperville il, usa
> _/ (_(_) / (_(_/_/_(_/  .       ronald.h.davis@lucent.com
> "if you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes"  -- edmund wilson
>

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