create digitalmars.D.moderated ??
Marco
marco at nospam.com
Tue Nov 20 06:07:19 PST 2007
Walter Bright Wrote:
> It's been proposed that a new newsgroup be created,
> digitalmars.D.moderated. It would work like moderated newsgroups on
> usenet do, such as comp.lang.c++.moderated. There would be 3 or 4
> volunteer moderators (not me), who would disallow posts that were
> off-topic, me too, spam, lacked content, or contained personal attacks.
> Ideally, the moderated group would set the bar for the quality of the
> messages.
>
> The original newsgroups will remain as the free-for-all wild west that
> makes them both fun and perhaps a little intimidating for some. While I
> like the wild west approach, many others clearly find it uncomfortable.
digitalmars.D is pretty much on topic most of the time, just nominate a couple of folks to do pure spam removal or "re-direct" postings to appropos NG. Otherwise this NG will fragment and you have to read two groups instead of one.
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