DAMN GOOD IDEA - MODERATE THE NEWSGROUP

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At 04:20 18/06/98 -0700, you wrote:

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>Lazy, yes but damnit: I have to use the web...I don't have access to a

>newsreader at work :-)

>I haven't spoken to but there might be a set of automated procedures

>that lessen the total " hands-on " moderation work. Jesus, I'd like to get

>those fools out of there.

It would be great- all the freedom to discuss our experiences and opinion

on 12 step programs, on a newsgroup that is accessible anywhere in the

world, and none of the trolls. That would be a valuable thing to have.

I'm not physically well and I don't have a lot of energy, but I would be

prepared to do some of the moderating- I don't know if it would be feasable

with a 486 computer, living in the UK, and only able to spend maybe an hour

a day on it- but if it was, it would be a lot better for me and my immune

system than the alternative that we currently have; looking every day at

the list of articles most of which are there to deliberately clog the

newsgroup up, skipping all the trolls and trying not to peek, knowing that

probably a lot of people are reading them and then feeling like that

newsgroup isn't worth bothering with- I find the present situation really

draining because I can't really DO anything to fix it.

I also think that the recovery needs of people who have had bad experiences

with 12 step programs will be comparable to the need people have to find

recovery programs in the first place. I'ts an unknown quantity but I think

it is a massive number. But it will be largely unrecorded due to the nature

of the problem. I mean, how many people go to their family doctor and say

" I need help to recover from AA " ? It's like rape, domestic violence and

racial attacks-- it's largely unreported. Except it is even more unreported

than those things- at least there are laws and criminal prosecutions

applicable in those cases. Someone who doesn't like AA is told very often

that it is simply because they are in denial and it is their fault.

>Joe: your right. Anger does breed anger.

Yup. On the net its a virus- it is self-replicating, doesn't think, and

only needs a suitable environment in which to propagate itself- an angry

human host. Not that it isn't useful as well sometimes (I put that bit in

for Ken ;-)).

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