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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 11 Jul 1997.
Re: Moderate this group? (was: SPAMMINGS: ARGH!)

Re: Moderate this group? (was: SPAMMINGS: ARGH!)

From Lars Hansen <"Lars Hansen <"@.>> · alt.ascii-art · 11 Jul 1997 00:00 · View full thread · report
Michael Naylor wrote:
> 
> What is everyone's thoughts on a moderated newsgroup?  I'd love to see
> one, as long as s/he is extremely liberal... I love the little flame
> wars and the "rat's ass" and all the off-color stuff that flies around
> in here and wouldn't want any censorship on anything even remotely
> related to this group, but dang, lets get the commercial stuff outta
> here!  ("Hot $ex $ite" must go... "Hot ASCII Sex" must stay!)

I agree -- apart from "[..] as long as s/he is [..]", which suggest that
ONE person should moderate everything. I've tried, it's really a lot of
work, at least if you do it manually with Netscape 3.01 like me. I've
cancelled over 30 commercial posts just today.

As I wrote earlier, I think only obvious spam posts should be removed,
and anything just SLIGHTLY on-topic should be left alone, and I have
never and will never remove anything except for posts like "Free Psychic
readings", "Hot Sex Passwords", "Cheap CD-R's" etc.

As long as we agree only cancelling obvious spam postings, I see no
problem letting all regular alt.ascii-art users be moderators. If people
just cancel spam as they see it, the problem would virtually dissapear.

Lars.

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From: Lars Hansen <"Lars Hansen <"@.>>
Subject: Re: Moderate this group?  (was: SPAMMINGS: ARGH!)
Date: 1997/07/11
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