From: alan.browne@FreeLunchVideotron.ca 
  
 Robert McClenon wrote: 
  
 > On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:22:06 +0100, "Christian McArdle" 
 >  wrote: 
 > 
 > 
 >>>I am mostly inclined to agree.  In any case, I would like the 
 >>>proponent to explain how he thinks that creating a new unmoderated 
 >>>group will improve the signal-to-noise ratio. 
 >> 
 >>Surely this an an argument against any unmoderated group anywhere on 
 Usenet? 
 >>Usenet is full of trolls and spammers. Creating new groups makes that 
 >>neither better nor worse. (Actually, I suspect it makes a slight 
 >>improvement). 
 >> 
 >>Christian. 
 >> 
 > 
 > 
 > It is a question about the valuie of creating any new unmoderated 
 > group to improve the signal-to-noise ratio when the noise is created 
 > by trolls.  What we are talking about here is essentially splitting a 
 > group.  The question is whether the noise is the result of having two 
 > communities in one group, with flamewars over whether traffic is 
 > off-topic, or whether it is due to flamers and trolls.  If there are 
 > two communities in one group, then splitting the group will reduce the 
 > noise if the posters to the group respect the boundaries between the 
 > groups and refrain from cross-posting. 
  
 As has been oft stated, there is a large volume of on-topic 
 traffic for all sorts of digital camera equipment.  A large 
 segment of that is for DSLR's, hence the RFD.  There is more than 
 sufficient need for such a split (which in any case will be shown 
 by the voting). 
  
  
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