In an indirect way there was a vote on this issue. We could have
voted to be moderated. That was declined (and indeed, I would have
resigned as newsgroup creator if it had been so voted).
I think you have registered your complaint about the matter. I would
suggest you discuss in terms of reducing the frequency of the posting,
instead of outright elimination.
The (unmoderated) newsgroups are a cooperative venture. There is no
real policing power, we declined it. I'd entertain a vote on an
automatic moderator* (which didn't exist when this newsgroup was
created). If you are serious, you would need to get an informal vote
going on that, and appoint someone to run the retromoderator.
* - As used in comp.asm.x86, automatic moderation is a program that
automatically forwards postings immediately. This gives a newsgroup
the immediate nature of a standard newsgroup, but allows individual
abusers, postings with excessive bad language, and spamers and ads
to be automatically filtered out.
Overkill wrote:
>
> I agree completely with this statement. These are newsgroups for
> discussions!
>
> Yet there is no mentioning *anywhere* about those weekly postings that
> Timo Salmi's script currently does.
>
> I believe that I have been clear enough when telling that I want to get
> rid of these weekly postings.
>
> And I am not completely alone with this opinion. Even though there has
> not been any real, open and wide voting about this matter.
>
> -Overkill
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