Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 15:00:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Cuthalion / Sliced Bread <enrico AT max DOT tiac DOT net>
To: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc: DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Digesting and moderating

On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, A.Appleyard wrote:

>   Having a moderator helps to eliminate multiple queries on the same subject.
>   If a moderator appends a brief reply in square brackets to a user message
> before letting it go out, that often avoids several wordy replies by users,
> many of which would have quoted the original message in full.
>   This has proved valuable in the moderated email groups virus-l AT lehigh DOT edu
> (viruses and antivirals) and tolklang AT dcs DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Tolkien's languages) in
> keeping bulk and amount of messages down.

	Moderating the group is all very fine and good, if you can find a 
moderator who has the time, and you don't care too much about message 
turn-around time.  I like the responsiveness of an unmoderated group - if 
I get stuck on some weird flakiness of DJGPP, I can often have a fix and 
be back to work within 12 hours.  That's valuable.

>   Digesting is useful to people who have to pay for email at so much per
> message received.

	Ah.  I didn't think of this...

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