Moderation?

I know that this group is not strictly moderated, but seeing as it is now near
enough 50% irrelevant spam crap and 50% requests, doesn't it seem like a good
idea?

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Philip Kaulfuss wrote:
> 
> I know that this group is not strictly moderated, but seeing as it is now near
> enough 50% irrelevant spam crap and 50% requests, doesn't it seem like a good
> idea?
> 

If you want a moderated newsgroup, see news:rec.arts.ascii which was created 
precisely because of the problems of alt.ascii-art.

If you want to help make alt.ascii-art a better place, then the thing to do
is complain to the postmaster of anyone posting an off-topic article to 
alt.ascii-art. (Definitely DO NOT SPAM by posting an insulting reply to
the off-topic article--that only adds to the noise.)
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Philip Kaulfuss (phi...@boehme.demon.co.uk) wrote:

>I know that this group is not strictly moderated, but seeing as it is now near
>enough 50% irrelevant spam crap and 50% requests, doesn't it seem like a good
>idea?

There is already a moderated Ascii Art newsgroup created for just 
this purpose:

     rec.arts.ascii

The moderator changed from Bob Allison to Don Bertino in July and
the group is now slow, with very few postings.

Here in alt.ascii-art it is the silly season as newcomers join up.

You must hope some new "artists" will appear with new offers in 
pictures. Meanwhile post some pictures of yours to address the
balance.


Bye,

Colin Douthwaite (cfb...@southern.co.nz) wrote:

: There is already a moderated Ascii Art newsgroup created for just
: this purpose:
:
:      rec.arts.ascii

Yeah, I read this one too, not much in it nowadays though. =\

: You must hope some new "artists" will appear with new offers in
: pictures. Meanwhile post some pictures of yours to address the
: balance.

Don't really have much time to make new ascii art these days, as you'll see in
my sig I'm busy on a game.  =)

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