17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
6:17 p.m.
ON
At 1:34 PM 8/19/96 -0700, Mike Duvos wrote:
Permit me to go off in an orthogonal direction here and say that I think that we should do away with the concept of a pre-ordained newsgroups in Usenet entirely, in favor of an IRC-like dynamic creation of message pools.
Moderated newsgroups gain reputation from their moderation policies and probably should not be included in this scheme.
Moderated newsgroups have very few posts because hardly anyone reads them. I second the above propsed IRC-like scheme if it only would apply to moderated groups, because of IRC's bad reputation of moderation.