Re: The Spammers Have Really Trashed This NG.
Andrew Thompson wrote:
On Jul 14, 5:26 pm, "Karl Uppiano" <Karl_Uppi...@msn.com> wrote:
..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?
No reason to do so.
The current structure is not that good and no need to
propagate it further.
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.
An EE what ??
:-)
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.
Interesting idea and one that could reduce the moderator
work a lot.
But I also suspect that it could raise long discussions about
who get the priv and who not.
Arne