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From: morena <morena@morena.rip>
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Subject: Re: 2nd RFD: Remove rec.arts.comics.reviews and rec.arts.comics.info
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 20:58:24 +0100
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On 12/6/24 20:28, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> I'll decide where to post a followup, thank you very much. I refuse to
> post in news.groups.proposals. Gee, the hierarchy administrators sure
> don't see irony in directing discussion to a moderated newsgroup
> designed to thwart discussion (criticsm of the past hierarchy
> administrators for being trolled into the discussions of the socmen
> herding group and pondscum group, both absurd proposals for moderated
> newsgroups discussion of which wouldn't die out for months) to discuss
> the failure of the moderation scheme for these two newsgroups. 

> Another time when skirv wanted to withdraw as a group moderator (I
> forget which group), he posted an MVI, which was an abuse of process.
> 
> This is all irrelevant. What needs to be done, which would be hard but
> useful work, is to contact each and every currently used moderated
> newsgroup to verify that they have a moderation team in place and a
> moderator succession policy.
> 
> Are you going to do that? No, of course not, 'cuz that might ensure that
> these might be useable for the indefinite future.
> 
> Leave all the failed moderated newsgroups in the checkgroups to remind
> the Usenet community of the folly of the current moderation scheme with
> its single point of (inevitable) failure.
> 
> As always, cleaning up checkgroups doesn't save Usenet. It's busy work.

People are with you! We stand with you. All peasant are willing to take 
flags and move to the square.

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