From: Jay Denebeim (denebeim@deepthot.org)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 23:24:04 CDT
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 04:26:42 -0700
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> said...
>
> > > But tell me, how many groups are actually hand moderated these days?
> >
> > I'd say most of the moderated groups are still hand-moderated, although
> > there are a growing number of groups moderated by nearly as many different
> > automated programs as there are groups.
> >
> > > Is it not much more common to use a bot (e.g. stump) which applies some
> > > filtering rules (crosspost limits, blacklists, etc) and then posts it
> > > automatically?
> >
> > Nope.
>
> That surprises me somewhat. In uk.*, it is almost universal for groups
> to be moderated by means of a filter-bot such as stump.
And then he goes on to explain that usefor is still planning to use a mime
type. Look, most moderators post these things by hand. Many of them are
not technical. Encapsulation is a bad thing for these folks.
Jay
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