Re: Moderating the newsgroup?

[dmcclain@runet.edu (Dennis McClain-Furmanski)]

Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:
: Dan Masterson (dmasters@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:
: 
: : I vote for doing it.  Some of our servers don't have KILLFILES available
: : (mine for instance) and I'm tired of seeing all the non-group releated
: : messages and junk.
: 
: I say not, since moderated groups have another set of problems...notably,
: posts don't appear until the moderator approves them.  One of the nice
: things about an unmoderated comp.sys.apple2 is that if I need help, I can
: post a request and often get a response *very* quickly.  That can't happen
: on a moderated group if the moderator leaves town for a week-end!

The solution is a mailing list merged to the newsgroup with someone 
filtering the traffic to keep out the MMF spams and the hose heads.
There's lots of newsgroups/mailing lists that run this way.

: ===special: regarding TIN on freenet.columbus.oh.us===
: As for not having a kill file, Dan, we're using a fully threaded
: newsreader.  Once you know that a thread is full of ravings, just mark it
: as read before you start reading.  From the article selection screen, when
: you first enter the newsgroup, use the arrow to move down to the offending
: thread and mark it with a K.  When you hit <TAB> to read the messages,
: that thread won't even appear.  That's saved me a lot of time by making me
: not have to read all those messages about Flopticals and SecondSight,
: neither of which apply to me (unfortunately).

See my message to Dan, re: your killfile procedure.
Unless they've managed to rip out that part of the program.
I use TIN on several systems and it's working on each of them.
While you're reading this, hit control+K.