On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:14:28 -0600, The Big-8 Management Board
> transparently proposed:
>
> > RESULT
> > rec.ponds.moderated will be created
> >
> >The Last Call for Comments on 28 Feb 2007 inititated a five-day period for
> >final comments. Following this comment period, the Big-8 Management Board
> >has decided by a vote to create the newsgroup rec.ponds.moderated. > >
> >The vote was 8 in favor and 0 opposed. 1 active member did not vote. > >
> >This group will be created on 09 Mar 2007.
> >
> >
> And the board awards another group of people, responsible for the
> destruction of their own group, a moderated private clubhouse. But
> don't tell the board they are moderation happy, they are "generally
> against moderation". Yet anyone with a sob story, an inability to use
> a killfile and says the magic word "troll" gets a moderated newsgroup.
I am becoming convinced that the entire beight should be moderated, and let's have done with half-measures.
To that end, I've been 'encouraging' the rmr crowd to head this- away and demand that the B8MBis save them....