From: qut@netcom.com (Roger Healy OBC)
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:33:33 +0800
To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Subject: Re: [RANT] Death of Usenet: Film at 11
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> 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.