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- From: doom@elaine6.Stanford.EDU (Joseph Brenner)
- Newsgroups: ba.internet,ba.news.group
- Subject: Re: new group on the way, and What does it take to create a ba group?
- Message-ID: <DOOM.93Jan26171358@elaine6.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 01:13:58 GMT
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- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
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- In-Reply-To: chroma@toad.com's message of 21 Jan 93 08:56:22 GMT
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- Yeah, I can see how giving one person the power to blacklist
- people at random can clearly get out of control, but on the
- other hand a real editor of a printed publication is an even
- greater dictator, and it doesn't make those publications
- necessarily useless...
-
- I think that the point that the sysop owned the system is
- mostly besides the point though. Moderated newsgroups exist
- already because people on the net think they're useful.
- They're not for the benefit of the moderator. If more
- people were willing to moderate, there would be more of
- them... it's because most people don't want to take the time
- that I raised the idea of using a simple, automated
- moderator.
-
- And you know, if someone wound up being banned from
- "ba.hangout", there's nothing to stop them from talking on
- some of the many unmoderated newsgroups.
-
- (Anyone remember me mentioning that I thought a draw back of
- this system would be having to deal with recurrent, spurious
- discussions about "free speech"? Well this is the first one.)
-