The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by Phil
Kyle, and I thusly replied:

On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 19:01:43 GMT, Reverend {Parson} Peter Parsnip wrote:

The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by Phil
Kyle, and I thusly replied:

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:18:47 -0000, Mary Fisher wrote:

"Steve W..." wrote in message
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"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in
message .uk...
Hi folks,

Out of curiosity, I have been subscribed for a while to the
moderated version of uk.local.yorkshire

I thought you might be interested in hearing how the new newsgroup
is performing and how well it is fulfilling its purpose....

The group took a little time before it was eventually 'found' by
all the Usenet servers, so it was not immediately available to
everyone. Once it was, it was then possible for anyone to subscribe
to and read the contents.

Postings made to the newsgroup are directed via a filter server
which is set up to remove certain content automatically, with some
additional manual intervention as and when needed. The filtering
seemed to only delay postings between a matter of a few seconds and
a worst case of some 5 minutes. This seems a small price to pay,
versus the alternative of the personal filter systems needed for so
many of the open groups. Whether the delays might increase as more
groups join the moderation server I don't know, but it seems a
small price to pay for the concentrated content. Any items which
are filtered out, can be easily seen on a web site and I have seen
no indications of bias on the part of the moderation process
against any genuine posts.

No attempt seems to have been made to completely eliminate
trolling, only the more malicious ones are absent. Those who
thought that the move to moderated status might mean the end of the
group, will I am sure find it a pleasant surprise.

Looking at the original u.l.y newsgroup this evening, all the
genuine posters seem to have abandoned it in favour of the new
moderated version of the group.

One of the objections to moderated groups I heard, was that
newcomers would not be able to get to the content easily and that
posting by newcomers would suffers long delays. This is absolutely
untrue. They can be reading in no more time than it takes to
subscribe to an umoderated group and posting with just a delay of a
minute or two.

If anyone wants to make this group moderated, I would certainly
support it.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (Lap)
http://www.ukradioamateur.org


Well it seems that this group is going down hill at some great
speed, the idiots that blight the group are obviously discussing
their tactics at playtime. Perhaps now's the time for the regulars
of the group to try & go forward & moderate the group or just call
it a day.

Sinking ships come to mind from your words.

We can always stick around and wait for them to get fed up or grow
up. That's my intention. We certainly don't have to read their
babblings.

Mary

Mary

Quite contrary.

I hope she's prepared to wait as long as DL have.

I'm setting up my caravan as we speak.

Traitor!

--
The Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip
Smiting Sinful Usenet Users Since 1874

"A ******* shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his
tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord."
- Deuteronomy 23:2