Re:Rejunevation of SCIT : serious effort

Prasad Chodavarapu (prasad@acm6.me.uiuc.edu)
Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:01:16 -0600 (CST)

[sItAramayya gAru wrote...]
:u are absolutely correct that some one who is bent on hijacking the
:newsgroup can do so even after automoderation. Our effort is obviously
:not a complete solution to the problem. However, when we discussed with
:other SCITers, we learnt that there is not much support for moderation.
:Moderation by one or many brings in a separate set of questions and
:problems. The present solution will cause inconvenience to crossposters
:and they will hopefully find it not worth their while to post on SCIT.

given the evidence of the past few months, such a hope
finds only a pessimistic corner in me.

on moderation:
in my proposal, based on r.s.cricket and r.s.c.info,
s.c.i.t remains an unmoderated group. anyone who does
not wish to see a moderated scit would still be satisfied.
infact, s.c.i.t.extracts is not a group to which original
posts are solicited. only, those articles, which already
appeared in scit and conform to the charter of scit shall
be allowed into scit.extracts. obviously, the day scit
gets better, there will be no need for s.c.i.t.ex. until then,
most ex-sciters who depend on the digest now, would have
an opportunity to get back to a newsgroup format.

prasad

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