List moderation

Two comments: First, from his past comments, I think it very unlikely that
Eric Hughes will want to see this list moderated.  However, he has indicated
that he would have no objection to a second list, run by someone else, which
took all posts from the CP list and moderated them, filtered them, encrypted
them, or whatever.  So some site would be needed to run the moderated list.

Second, is anyone actually willing and able to do this job?  I certainly don't
have time.  How much delay is the moderation process likely to introduce?
How available can the moderators be to handle and process incoming mail?
This seems like a potentially very large time commitment by the moderators
with little reward.

Hal

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> Second, is anyone actually willing and able to do this job?  I certainly don't
> have time.  How much delay is the moderation process likely to introduce?
> How available can the moderators be to handle and process incoming mail?
> This seems like a potentially very large time commitment by the moderators
> with little reward.
> 

	I would do it starting this summer once I get my real-net-feed
running and my public access site up, probably for subscribers to my
site only, though. (Hence giving people greater incentive to subscribe
to my service, and giving me a benefit from doing it..)
	[Of course it would be trivial for any one person who's
subscribed to my service to redistribute it to others-- but if that is
abused and I don't get sufficient income from the activity, then I'll
stop doing it.]

[BTW: I'm looking at $5/month for a maildrop accessible via the POP
protocol. Fully anonymous, all I need is money in advance. (Probably a
2-3 meg quota on the mailspool.. my link isn't very fast nor do I have
loads of diskspace at this point) What do people think?]

I oppose moderation.  1) It is a form of censorship.  2) It (inevitably)
introduces bias.  3) If you don't like *them* (net.loon, etc.), create a
kill file.

       Dave Otto -- dave@gershwin.jta.edd.ca.gov -- daveotto@acm.org
    "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"     [the Great Oz]

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> 
> I oppose moderation.  1) It is a form of censorship.  2) It (inevitably)
> introduces bias.  3) If you don't like *them* (net.loon, etc.), create a
> kill file.

	Like I said I already filter the list and generally only read
the people that I know will make a post that worth my time to read. I
don't propose that an moderated list is set up, but I suspect that I
will probably make available a filtered (by message, not by
author.. by author would be too easy) version of the list available if
I find it profitable.
	If I suck at the job, then no one will use my filter and it
will be moot. (And I'll search for other ways to make my net-service
Better Than the Rest[tm])

-Sameer