From: David Iain Greig (dgreig@darwin.ediacara.org)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 12:19:12 CDT
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:34:03AM -0700, Jay Denebeim wrote:
>
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
>
> > David Iain Greig a dit :
> >
> > >Talk.origins is automoderated.
> > >Talk.origins permits crossposts to any 3 other groups[1][2].
> > >
> > >
> > We must not have the same definition of automoderated.
True.
> > If it were the case, there could not be any special problem in posting
> > to that group, because the users would add themself the moderation header.
>
> You're thinking selfmoderated. Automoderated is moderation done with
> software without a human.
Yes, there is a robomoderator for t.o. Not like alt.2600. (IIRC)
The robot gets the article, looks for talk.origins in the Newsgroups:
*header*, then posts the article, as long as it is posted to 4 or less
groups. By charter I am not to amend the Newsgroups: line, only
accept or reject the post. (I wrote the charter.)
> > Whatever I don't see why an additional restriction could not be set that
> > the user would not be allowed to cross-post to group that use non-ascii
> > caracter in their name.
>
> You obviously are unaware of the politics surrounding the moderation of
> talk.origins. Putting a moderated group into talk was *very*, very,
> controversial.
Jay is my pocket conscience. From time to time I produce him
to remind me how talk.origins was made moderated. =)
--D.