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  Msg # 365 of 32000 on ZZNE4431, Saturday 5-12-23, 2:28  
  From: JIM RILEY  
  To: ALL  
  Subj: Re: creating a moderated group (misc.wri  
 From: jimrtex@pipeline.com 
  
 On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:32:36 -0700, Russ Allbery  
 wrote: 
  
 >There are a bunch of reasons why we have a moratorium on moderating a 
 >group in place, but one of the big ones as far as I'm concerned is that 
 >doing so inherently involves taking a group away from other people (since 
 >otherwise, there wouldn't be a movement to moderate the group).  Those 
 >people may well be near-universally despised, but I still really mistrust 
 >those sorts of moral judgements when it's very easy to let everyone have 
 >their own space. 
  
 Would you accept an RFD that would split the group into: 
  
   misc.writing.screenplays.professional (moderated) 
  
 and 
  
   misc.writing.screenplays.{misc|wasteland|whatever} (unmoderated) 
  
 ? 
  
 -- 
 Jim Riley 
  
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