rec.autos.simulators

by **Jim Sokolof** » Sat, 13 Dec 1997 04:00:00

> Just to make it crystal clear, neither Michael nor I had anything to do
> with this kid's delusions of power. Either he fabricated this entire
> deal or it was a set up, with someone telling him this stuff hoping he'd
> actually be naive or stupid enough to fall for it. I'm pretty sure the
> former is what happened. If not, I'm kind of upset I was left out of
> the joke... =(

> All in all it was still quite a good laugh.

> --
> Eric T. Busch

> http://www.racesimcentral.net/

> an old ymenard quote...

> >"First of all, I was named by the Top 15 SimRacers on the 'net, so I
> >didn't elected myself as the leader of r.a.s. It was inside a chat of
> >those important people that they decided to have an official leader of
> >r.a.s. They discussed on who it should be, and they arrived at the
> >conclusion that it should be me, but with restrictions. Eric T. Busch
> >and Micheal E.Carver don't have time now like me to spend on r.a.s.,
> >so I said yes when they proposed me the "job"...

I got an e-mail from ymenard, announcing that I'd be inducted into
some sort Sim Racing Hall of Fame, and sent an interview questionairre
for me to fill out for my virtual induction ceremony. I'm really,
really sorry that I never got around to filling it out...

---Jim

by **Jim Sokolof** » Sat, 13 Dec 1997 04:00:00

> >I think there is room for both a moderated and non-moderated newsgroup
> >for r.a.s. There are good things and bad things about moderated
> >newsgroups. One of the off-shoots of the discussion about splitting up
> >r.a.s., was the possibility of a moderated group to discuss development
> >and "enhancements" to simulation programs. One that would allow the
> >developers a place to visit in relative peace.

A list server still serves that role better, as you "know" who's
reading it. That's a pretty important distinction for developers, who
might not want a given comment to be public and forever archived in
DejaNews, etc.

Too bad CIS doesn't elect to provide it as a non-proprietary service.

The real problem with a moderated group is the criteria for culling
"bad" posts. Misc.taxes.moderated is very successful, because***
Adams can trivially determine: "Is this post related to taxes? [and
does it not suggest tax protest or evasion]" How do
we cull r.a.s.m? "Is this post related to auto sims?"? Well, most of
the posts that aren't "reasoned discussion" are still related to sims,
so culling based on that simple to evaluate question is next to
useless. (I already score away the *** ads, most MMFs, all the
$1000/wk, as I imagine most do.)

What problem would people like solved by r.a.s.m and how do you
propose moderating?

You could have a process do the bulk of moderation, particularly if
you are willing to say that persons X, Y, and Z are suitable for
auto-approval by this process. But then, those posts show up noticably
faster than human-approved posts, and I think in general it's not a
very good solution to whatever the perceived problems that exist in
r.a.s. right now.

Get a less crippled email client. If you want a great one that's free
and completely customizable, use Gnus (for Emacs)! Granted, listserv
messages don't come with references for true threading, but gnus sorts
by subject fairly nicely.

---Jim

by **Goy Larse** » Sun, 14 Dec 1997 04:00:00

(snip)

Hear, hear

I don`t really know the difference between moderated and unmoderated
newsgroups, but if this would mean a chance for us to have some nice
discussions where the softwarehouses could be involved, I`m for it

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

by **David Spark** » Tue, 16 Dec 1997 04:00:00

Now I'm really jealous, Jim. ;)

Dave Sparks (TEN ID: davids)
OSCAR Racing Series: http://www.synapse.net/~crankstr/oscar
IWCCCARS Project: http://www.theuspits.com/iwcccars/index.html-ssi

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