Re: [SLUG] Call for new list best-of-slug ?

[Anthony Rumble <smilie@nospam.LinuxHelp.com.au>]

On Mon, 29 May 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> > Anyone else feel the same way?
> > 
> > Who would volunteer to be the sacrificial lamb/s to do the moderating?
> 
> Or more importantly, who could be bothered to post to it? Do I have to remember
> to consider whether my post is brilliant every time, or should I forward good
> posts when I see them?
> 
> As much as I'd like to see the list being split nicely, the detractors have a
> point. Until someone comes up with a silver bullet, I don't think anyone's
> going to agree to a change.

No, Thats not how it works. best-of-* lists have one or more people who
"scan" the main list, and forward "good" posts to the best-of-* list.

There are many high bandwidth lists that do this already.. like "ausrave"
and the linux kernel lists.

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