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Now I'm confused. Is this a maximum of 60 (or 65) or a
minimum of 60 (or 65). I tried to look in the Guidelines,
but none of the links open in Mozilla 1.7.5

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Vic Roberts
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Moderator: Being changed to 65.

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Stuart A. Bronstein wrote:
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Our esteemed moderator set the newsgroup standard to 65 some
time ago. His post was the first time I had seen 60.

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Alan
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Esteemed Moderator:
You're correct, Alan. I set it at 65 9+ years ago.
But I wrote the software at 60 and then put 60 in the
Guidelines. Not a problem to change.

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"A.G. Kalman" <glendale202-mtm2[at]yahoo.com> wrote:
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72

Stu

Moderator: 60

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A fairly new group called uk.legal.moderated has a very high
volume, though they have (I think) six moderators, which
lightens the load considerably. In addition they have a
whitelist of people whose posts they have determined they can
allow automatically, which lightens the load even more.

Stu

Moderator: We can discuss via mail.

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Dick Adams wrote:

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I thought the standard was 65 characters per line.

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Alan
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Dick Adams <rdadams[at]smart.net> wrote:

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Well, if you'd take the tip of some other moderated
newsgroups and post once a week, there'd be a heck of a lot
fewer posts to go through - though the amount of spam would
be the same.

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Batch processed? Does that mean into the dustbin?

Stu

Moderator:
Nobody handles the daily volume I handle. But I have
written software that makes it easier.

Batch processed means they go through the software.

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Dick Adams <rdadams[at]smart.net> writes:

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Is that last sentence a euphemism for being put
in the "burn before read" file?

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Rich Carreiro rlcarr[at]animato.arlington.ma.us

Moderator:
My "burn before read" file is reserved for spammers and
other white trash liberal scum. That file doer into the
great bit bucjet in the sky.

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In the beginning, I posted every entry by hand. This was
not difficult because nine years ago a big day was 30
entries. Well we are now in off season and a big day is
40 entries. So I will hand post everything that eyeballs
close to 60 characters per line. Everything else gets
batch processed.

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