The Logic Off Topic list

----- Original Message -----

From: mercutio <mercutio@...>
> My experience with newsgroups is that this is a useful, in fact, rich
> resource.

Newsgroups do not force people to download every posting, so cannot be
compared to this mailing list in the context of moderation.

Hector.

On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 09:36 AM, Hector wrote:

> Newsgroups do not force people to download every posting, so cannot be
> compared to this mailing list in the context of moderation.

Seems irrelevant to me whether you "delete" an email message without 
reading or "mark as read" a newsgroup line. The only difference is the 
few moments spent fetching mail from the server. Even on dial-up this 
time is hardly worth comment. I don't think anyone is forced to do 
anything they don't want to in either case.

On the main LUG I may read the first message in a thread - if the 
subject doesn't interest me I delete the entire thread. Its very easy 
to do. If a subject is repeated often enough, for example I am no 
longer interested in reading LAW posts - its trivial to create a filter 
that directs all those messages to the trash - that way you never see 
them.

Guess my point is that is well within everyone's power to moderate 
themselves.