From: "Alain Coetmeur" Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi Subject: Re: Suggest we make this a moderated group ASAP Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 11:18:04 +0100 Organization: Informatique-CDC Message-Id: <767m12$akd1@puligny.idt.cdc.fr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Anthony Skjellum a écrit dans le message ... >Folks, I spearheaded the effort to create this newgroup a few years ago on >behalf of the MPI Forum. It was chosen to be unmoderated so that it would >be an open forum with low maintenance and no filtering of technical or >political content related to MPI. a good design IMHO > Unfortunately, with the spread of the >Internet to practically everyone, the graffiti/pornography level is really >getting out of hand. we are adult and responsible... the delete button is juste a small gesture, which as you say, we become more and more trained about. as long as noise is under 20% why slow down this useful and professional newsgroup ? >I propose that we make this a moderated list, with the only moderation to be >done be that for relatedness to parallel computing, >preferably MPI, and to eliminate the irrelevant and inappropriate. >I am willing to moderate, or else we could fine someone else that >everyone wants, whichever... if noise became more sensible why not moderate "a prosteriori", ie cancel articles that are out of scope the day after... then if noise is important, automatic temporary cancel can be an issue (cancel on pattern and resend on moderation) IMHO, all this is much more fault tolerant, and need less effort from volonteers like you. >If there is some interest, the formal requirement for proposing the >modification would be the next step, with voting... >Please comment. thanks, best regards.