Would a periodic update be appropriate if the discussion is to be ongoing? Is it being posted somewhere else?
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Would a periodic update be appropriate if the discussion is to be ongoing? Is it being posted somewhere else?
B8MB has unofficialy weighed in and the result is no moderation. THe issue is dead but the wailing and gnashing is still tailing off. 368 posts and counting (some mine, yes).
The Big8 has weighed in unofficially. For technical reasons and not for the merit of the problem they are against moderating an existing open group. All is not lost though. There will be another discussion shortly on an RFD regarding moderating this group.
When the time comes for the RFD the topic will be cross posted on comp.cad.solidworks and news.groups.announce from the beginning. Unlike the thread a started a couple weeks ago which was only looking for agree or disagree answers discussion will be encouraged from all sides. In fact discussion will be necessary to show support especially from those that agreed.
After a period the RFD will go through round two of discussion and then a CFV or call for votes. Assuming we get to the CFV stage this will be where the rubber meets the road.
There are some that think this issue is dead, it certainly isn't.
4th alternative: Buy SE w/ ST for JB and see what happens. Give the bitch a bigger hammer and he still won't hit the nail.
I expect he's already looking for the next solution to present day CAD / CAM's 'miserable failings' to make everyone unfailingly miserable with.
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:49:15 +0100, Thomas Lee wrote in :
If they're talking about running their own news server, they could issue accounts on that server and filter their spool as they please. Some news service providers filter spam; others do not. All are acting within their rights.
People who want to run a filtered news server are well within their rights and don't need anything from the board or from news.groups to do so. The one who pays the piper gets to call the tune.
If they're still talking about changing the unmoderated group to a moderated group, I agree with the rest of your analysis. Adding a companion moderated group is not the same thing as changing the existing, unmoderated group into a moderated group.
Marty
In message , "Martin X. Moleski, SJ" writes
My understanding is that some of them want to run an RFD to moderate the existing non-moderated group. If your suggestion is correct, then I agree they are free to do what they want on their own server.
Yup.
Agreed.
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We talked about setting up our own server, but of course that costs money that we don't have. Given the reliability it would probably have to be a collocated server at some ISP and that runs $300 / month, etc. We could sell subscriptions to the server which has it's good points in that there would be instant response for those subscribed. But that would add more workload to the moderation task. And if we filtered our own server there is no guarantee that it would end up filtering GG which is one of our goals. We are talking about doing as was suggested by the board and going with .moderated.
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