PENMART01 wrote:
>
> Nancy Young > writes:
>
> >I just had a good laugh at the thought of what kind of masochist
> >would take on the 24 hour a day job of sifting through posts to
> >rfc for content.
>
> Most generally folks who subscribe to moderated newsgroups know that they are
> moderated, whereas they know in advance the parameters of what content is
> permitted, therefore since they hope to see their contributions posted, and
> that they don't receive an unvoluntary unsubscribing, they tend to stick to the
> rulz... in summary the vast majority of moderated Newsgroups require very
> little moderating.

That's obvious, of course traffic would diminish. I knew that, I
was laughing at someone having to do that as it is today. Just a
little laugh, that's all.

> Also, moderated Newsgroups do not as a rule receive nearly the traffic of of
> say an <r.f.c>. And moderated Newsgroup servers post in batches, perhaps a few
> times each day, so moderators really don't slave away night and day as you
> imply.

Wow, I didn't know that! I thought it was 24/7.

(laughing)