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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 1902 Volume: 8
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Mon Feb 16 11:08:16 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 98 08:00:09 -0800
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Perl-Users Digest Mon, 16 Feb 1998 Volume: 8 Number: 1902
Today's topics:
Re: on reading FAQs and gurus answering questions (John Stanley)
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Date: 16 Feb 1998 15:52:44 GMT
From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
Subject: Re: on reading FAQs and gurus answering questions
Message-Id: <6c9ncc$dle$1@news.orst.edu>
In article <34E655C3.986593A7@5sigma.com>,
Joseph N. Hall <joseph@5sigma.com> wrote:
>Sure, we could retro-moderate clpm (some kind of robo-mod).
I think you would find it much easier to just create a new, moderated
newsgroup. Some people oppose retroactive moderation on principle, and I
am one of them. It is extremely wasteful of resources and teaches people
that cancelling messages you don't want to see is better than simply not
reading them.
I would point out that, had the proponents last time been willing to
compromise and allow keyword moderation, you would have your moderated
group now.
>I think
>that might be a better strategy than a new group, anyway. Re-charter
>and vote. I'll vote for it and argue for it till I'm blue in the face.
What you have just said is that you do not think there should be an
unmoderated forum for discussing perl issues and questions.
It is not appropriate to moderate the .misc group. By definition, that
group is for "everything else relevant to ...", and if you moderate it,
you are contradicting that.
>Since spending some time in IRC (after all these years not bothering)
>I have realized what USENET needs is a kick button. p5p could use
>one too. :-)
It's called a killfile.
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Date: 8 Mar 97 21:33:47 GMT (Last modified)
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