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From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: RFD: comp.object.moderated moderated
Date: 1998/10/13
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Date: 1998-10-13T00:00:00+00:00
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Even though this is about the organization of newsgroups, and how they
should be run, this thread is one of the stronger agruments in favor of
moderation that I have seen.  There seems to be no commonly agreeable
upon method of halting the discussion.

Patrick Logan wrote:
> 
> In comp.object Ell <ell@access2.digex.net> wrote:
> 
> : You elided the part where I quoted from the RFD that one-upsmanship will
...
> 
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