Moderated C group ? (was Re: Postin

[mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu]

>Frans van Otten writes:
>
>|...  If someone has a serious question, he or she can ask it in the
>|moderated group.   If the group is known as a high quality one,
>|interest in the unmoderated group will cease.
>
>That sounds reasonable, but it doesn't work that way in practice.  If
>you have two groups with essentially the same charter, but only one
>is moderated, the unmoderated one gets all the traffic.

If comp.lang.c is made moderated, there really SHOULD be a parallel
unmoderated group. Moderated groups are NEVER as successful as unmoderated ones
At least I've never seen one. 

What might be better is a moderated comp.lang.c.excerpts, where a moderator
censors the regular comp.lang.c, so persons who are sufficiently
lazy to run through it all can look at the summary, a week or a month or 
a year late!!!

Doug McDonald