From: gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: c.o.m.djgpp retro-moderated? Date: 7 Mar 1997 19:40:30 GMT Organization: Oxford University Message-ID: <5fpqve$pc3@news.ox.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mc31.merton.ox.ac.uk Lines: 55 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Dave Cigna (cigna AT helios DOT phy DOT OhioU DOT Edu) wrote: [...] : Having said that, I propose a small hierarchy of groups: I'm not sure whether I am for or against the splitting of the group, but if it is decided that this is the right thing to do then I'd like to make a few points... : c.o.m.djgpp what doesn't fit in the other groups AFAIK the general preference is not to have groups part-way down a tree; if c.o.m.djgpp.* exist then c.o.m.djgpp shouldn't. Maybe it should be renamed to c.o.m.djgpp.misc? : c.o.m.djgpp.newbie (there must be a better name for this!) comp.os.msdos.djgpp.tech-support perhaps? Or would this lead people to treat it as a paid-for service (i.e. demanding support rather than politely asking for it)? : c.o.m.djgpp.graphics I'm not sure why exactly you chose graphics; I don't think there are that many graphics-related posts to the newsgroup/mailing list at present. : c.o.m.djgpp.announce mirror of the mailing list : Note the the announce group could be fully moderated without much : effort. Indeed, the mailing list already is. There aren't very many announcements, though. [...] : On the other hand, a fully moderated mailing list might work and could : even be linked with usenet. In other words, a moderator would select : suitable posts and email submissions to send to the list. There'd be : no point in reading that AND the newsgroup because one would be a : subset of the other. This would require a lot of time from the moderator(s), and would slow down the response speed (which is usually less than a day). Perhaps a better system (which I suggested about a week ago) would be for someone (if anyone has enough time) who reads the group/list religiously to extract the most relevant points, summarize long articles where appropriate, etc, to provide a cut-down digest for people who just want the bare facts, with no discussion. AFAIK the current digest mailing lists are not treated in this way; they are just amalgamations of the day/week's mail. -- George Foot Merton College, Oxford.