Re: A Product Design Invitation

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:21:33 CST, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:17:47 CST, Guy Macon
><_see.web.page_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>I recently took over as the moderator of the misc.business.product-dev
>>newsgroup. It is my intention to make it into a good resource for all
>>aspects of product development.
>>
>>I have set up moderation software and have gotten the group off to a
>>slow start by inviting my buddies over on comp.arch.embedded to
>>participate. I am now ready to invite more users.
>>
>>Here is how the moderation works:
>>
>>Crossposts to one other non-moderated newsgroup are allowed and welcome.
>>That way you can simply keep posting here as you usually do except for
>>crossposting to sci.electronics.design,misc.business.product-dev
>>instead of just posting to ,sci.electronics.design.
>>
>>I will approve your first post (expect a delay until the next time
>>I log in as moderator - I do this several times per day) and will
>>add most posters to the whitelist so that all future posts from them
>>are autoapproved without delay.
>>
>>All posts will be approved unless they are obviously spam, off-topic,
>>or trolling. If you read the read the thread in m.b.p-d, you will
>>only see posts that are not trolling, flaming, political/religious
>>posts, etc. I will *not* censor posts for content as long as they
>>have at least a marginal connection with product development.
>>
>>Right now misc.business.product-dev is pretty much a dead group,
>>but I am hoping that I can revive it. I can't do it alone, so
>>I am asking for your help.
>>
>>
>
>Ah, a Guy-Macon-censored version of s.e.d.
>
>John
>
>
>======================================= MODERATOR'S COMMENT:
> If the need is there, someone is going to meet it... :)




Since s.e.d. is unmoderated, why is there a moderator's comment in my
post? That implies that Guy can, in fact, edit my posts. Which clearly
sucks.

There's a reason that most moderated groups are wastelands.


John



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