From: james.harris.1@nospicedham.gmail.com   
      
   On 20/12/2020 00:13, Frank Kotler wrote:   
   > On 12/19/2020 07:22 AM, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 11:57:28 GMT, James Harris   
   >   
   > ...   
   >>> At the risk of continuing a thread that is already off the topic of   
   >>> x86 asm I wonder if there's not some way the rest of us could make the   
   >>> job of the moderator easier. Maybe that's something we should discuss.   
   >>>   
   >> Is there any need for moderating? Just ignore any religious posts.   
      
   I think there is. I appreciate the moderation. It stops this group being   
   flooded with posts which are completely off topic as is happening to   
   other groups.   
      
   That said, I wonder if those of us who post here could make the job of   
   the moderator a bit easier. Specifically:   
      
   For me, the best thing about moderation is that it filters out the   
   garbage which is unquestionably spam. I mean things such as adverts for   
   manuals or for medicines etc. Personally, I don't mind topics like   
   olcott's which are only vaguely related to asm programming: such things   
   could be a problem if the group was very busy with them but it's not.   
   And it's no problem at all for the rest of us to delete or ignore any   
   messages we personally feel are too far away from x86 asm.   
      
   Don't get me wrong. It would be nice to have only the 'right' messages   
   here but IMO that's an unnecessary ask of a moderator. For one thing,   
   each person will have his own idea as to which messages are 'right'. For   
   another, each of us can decide for himself which messages to read. It's   
   no great trouble to do so.   
      
   So ISTM (and this is just my view) the best balance is to whitelist   
   those who write about anything vaguely connected with x86 assembly,   
   causing all spam (adverts etc) to be filtered out, and to leave it to   
   the members of the group to deal with questions of what they consider to   
   be strictly on topic or not.   
      
   Further, if a whitelisted poster goes rogue and starts to try to use the   
   group to proselytise or publish other clearly off-topic writings that he   
   knows it's wrong to post I would be happy to see him removed from the   
   whitelist without mercy! And to be kept off for a long, long time. There   
   is at least one unmoderated asm group for such people to use.   
      
   AISI that lot would ask the least of the moderator while also keeping   
   the group clear of spam.   
      
   But that's just my view.   
      
   ...   
      
   > comp.lang.asm - the unmoderated group - may still exist. We could try   
   > that. Last I tried it, it worked. Your server may not carry it.   
      
   I don't think there's a comp.lang.asm but there is an alt.lang.asm which   
   is unmoderated.   
      
   ...   
      
   > Meanwhile, I'll try to approve the on-topic stuff - just ohnore the   
   > off-topic stuff that slips by me...   
      
   Thanks for what you've been doing for us, Frank.   
      
      
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   James Harris   
      
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