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- Path: sparky!uunet!digex.com!bote
- From: bote@access.digex.com (John Boteler)
- Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Immoderation
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 20:17:37 GMT
- Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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- References: <5d04dde9.cb12@dabo.citi.umich.edu>
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- Jim.Rees@umich.edu writes:
- >I wouldn't mind PAT's editorial comments so much if he'd do a better job of
- >moderating. Why were there five separate messages about Iridium in the last
- >digest, all saying the same thing?
-
- This has been my gripe for the last couple years. When an article
- hits the telecom mailbox, it immediately bounces 2 pages
- of text telling you how stringent the requirements are
- for article acceptance. You can't have too much quoted
- text, the article must be relevant and must not repeat
- other articles, your .signature line will be trimmed...
-
- So what? I saw an article the other day with the classic
- use(less)net subject: "For <John Smith> only, please reply".
- Gimmeafuckinbreak! It's a MODERATED newsgroup/list and
- some idiot is using it to get through because his mail
- bounced??!! Tough shit! Why was such a message ever
- even considered in the first place?
-
- I know of other messages which definitely contributed
- to the ongoing discussion in a constructive way, yet
- never appeared on telecom digest. Why?
- >
- >No, I'm not offering to take on the job myself.
-
- Why not, at least we could read creative .signature
- lines instead of pages and pages of overbearing
- "Moderator's Notes".
-
-
- --
- bote@access.digex.com (John Boteler)
- This week's usenet malapropism: its, it's
- its = posessive pronoun; "My car blew its engine."
- it's = contraction of 'it is'; "It's cold outside!"
-