Moderation and slight change of (de facto) policy

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2016-04-19, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:43 pm, Jon Ribbens wrote:
>> Are you saying that Usenet posts skip the moderation entirely?
>> 
>> This whole thing seems a bit of a mess. What you really need to be
>> doing is changing the Usenet group to be moderated, otherwise you're
>> going to end up with two different views supposedly of the same thing
>> which in fact may be completely different.
>
> It's worse than that. There are many other places that mirror this group,
> such as gmane, Activestate, bytes.com, gossamer-threads.com, and of course
> Google Groups. They all have their own moderation and filtering policies,
> which may differ from those of the others. Some of them may do only
> mirroring, while others (including GG and gmane) may allow posting.
>
> And yet, we manage to muddle on.

We've muddled on so far, but apparently we're just about to have
a significant change in moderation policy which sounds like it may
very well add to the confusion.

> If the plethora of mirrors with inconsistent views is the worst that
> happens to us, I for one will be amazingly happy.

Well indeed, the main reason I posted at all was because it sounded
like the new policy hadn't thought about Usenet at all and was about
to block Usenet posts completely. If that's not true then I'm more or
less happy ;-)