> From: lgd450 at nwu.edu (Angie)
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:22:10 -0500
> [e-mailed in parallel]
ln> m-natarajan at nwu.edu (Madhusudan Natarajan) wrote:
> 3. We need a moderator (some computer access prerequisites). usually the
> discussion leader becomes moderator.
Some potential problems : All postings to the newsgroup have to go ln>
through the
> moderator. hence his availabilty dictates the posting of articles to the
> You may want to think about having more moderators. It really is a
> full time job. For our moderated group, we have 10 moderators, so
The traffic in this group was fairly low before the sudden influx of
abduction zealots and conspiracy fools. I would imagine most researchers
would use the othernet[tm], and browse this for posts from the public. Had
the traffic been commonly high, I would have held off on my two facetious
responses.
One problem is that anyone qualified to moderate would also be flat-out
with teaching and research - some threads in the past have been anything
but scientific, but the questions uneducated people ask can sometimes be
quite interesting and thought provoking.
However, FWIW, I'd add a vote for a moderated conference, even if only one
in ten of my posts would get through;-)
Terry
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