From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9437,544c98121879c710 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9437,public X-Google-Thread: f9437,ca641b3dcee9ee4 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9437,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,544c98121879c710 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,ca641b3dcee9ee4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,544c98121879c710 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,ca641b3dcee9ee4 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,544c98121879c710 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ca641b3dcee9ee4 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,544c98121879c710 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca641b3dcee9ee4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b99334cb89bcb335 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ca641b3dcee9ee4 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) Subject: Re: RFD: comp.object.moderated moderated Date: 1998/10/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 401688255 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: skule.ecf Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) References: <907918039.22235@isc.org> <36234afd.80326813@news.geccs.gecm.com> <3626743b.1281352@news.erols.com> Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3626743b.1281352@news.erols.com>, Ell wrote: > >The point is the corralling of precious Usenet resources - mainly >bandwidth on Usenet servers - to promote the interests of a single >group and to undemocratically shield that group from criticism. How many "groups" do you need to form a new newsgroup? Why isn't one sufficient, if it's large enough? And, if it's an attempt to shield people from criticism, it's going to be woefully inadequate. We're not allowed to reject posts on the basis of content, so we won't be able to prevent criticism from being posted. >There is also the aspect that it becomes a Usenet "comp." group and >the above narrow motivation of the proposed moderated group does not >make it worthy of such designation. No, of course it doesn't. That's because that's not the reason the group is being formed. Do you have any evidence that you've read the RFD? -PD -- -- Patrick Doyle doylep@ecf.toronto.edu