Re: The Spammers Have Really Trashed This NG.
On Jul 14, 5:26 pm, "Karl Uppiano" <Karl_Uppi...@msn.com> wrote:
(moderated group)
..It seems the
idea would have to be circulated, and if enough people were interested in
doing so, then the party is on.
The one thing I can tell you is that it seems a lot
easier to establish a group in the usenet hierarchy,
than it is to change it. Based on that, I strongly
recommend taking great care with how you initially
define the group description and process.
For example, would a new group even attempt to make
the kinds of distinction between topics that are
implied by the existing comp.lang.java.* hierarchy?
My feeling is that most noobs have enough trouble
telling Java from JavaScript, let alone whether an
question about an applet failing to connect to a
servlet is best suited to c.l.j.gui, a programmer
group, or an EE specific group.
As an aside, I don't know if it is technically
possible, but if the moderator could 'hold up/delay
for inspection' any posts from an unknown origin
(especially new topics), yet have a list of 'trusted
sources' that are immediately passed, that might be
able to largely alleviate the delays that slow threads
to a crawl.
If any people on the 'trusted list' descend into
spammish or trollish behaviour, they get maybe
2-3 posts through before the mod. notices and
removes them from the list.
--
Andrew T.