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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Soc.Motss.* / Automoderation.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.113726.20239@macc.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <1h0jbbINNk0@smurf.sti.com> <1992Dec20.223503.4350@reed.edu> <1992Dec21.063607.23298@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 11:37:26 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Dec21.063607.23298@netcom.com>
- jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec20.223503.4350@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu
- >(Nelson Minar) writes:
-
- >>No, the problem with automoderation is that it's a
- >>technical nightmare. It would require all postings to
- >>soc.motss to be channeled through one machine: the
- >>moderator's. You've just turned the random graph of Usenet
- >>into a hierarchical tree. If that one machine is down, or a
- >>piece of the network is gone, then parts of motss aren't
- >>propagated.
-
- >That's the case with any moderated group, and people seem
- >to be able to live with it.
-
- Bet you anything (your article didn't need to be
- cross-posted, btw) that no moderated group gets 400 messages
- a day. The topic is not about having one of several
- soc.motss.* groups be moderated, it's about automoderating
- *all* of the one group.
-
- On a more philosophical level, the *main* thing here is what
- the humans do or don't do, and I really don't like
- algorithmic approaches to human problems.
-
- <> If the world were a logical place, men would ride
- <> side-saddle. -- Rita Mae Brown
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