Re: Creating a Python newsgroup (fwd)

Bill Baker (baker@spk.hp.com)
Fri, 21 Jan 94 8:37:32 PST

(Forwarded by request from Steve)

> I am of the opinion that both sides of the moderated/unmoderated debate can
> be
> satisfied with the initial creation of a comp.lang.python and a follow-on (or
> simultaneous) creation of other sub-groups that could be moderated (e.g.
> comp.lang.python.development). This could satisfy both parties and new users
> of the language.

This would be pretty easy to do. We would run two votes at once, one
for comp.lang.python (unmoderated) and one for c.l.p.development (moderated).
Each vote would be independent; in other words, one could be created without
the other.

Of course, we would need a moderator.

Steve

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