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From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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Subject: Talk: Net Cops :P
Date: 22 Feb 1995 23:51:25 -0600
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nPOCTO KPbICMAH <dad@herbie.unl.edu> wrote:
>
>Daniel Au (dcau@casbah.acns.nwu.edu) wrote:
>
>: Ack!  I got busted by a self proclaimed 'Net Cop' via net mail for 
>: posting an 8 line sig in another newsgroup.  He was nice about it, 
>: giving me a compliment
>
>[snip-snip-snip]
>
>    Just a few questions (I don't think this article will go through, as 
>well as some previous postings, but anyway): 

   Don't worry, you keep practicing your posting and I know you'll get 
better.

>    -- Who moderates this newsgroup?

   We're not exactly sure but we think it moderated by an old gray beared 
guy who lives in a hollow tree.

>    -- Why is the newsgroup moderated?

   He lost a bet.

>    -- What are the guidelines for moderation (no answers in the FAQ)?

   The guidelines are kept in a mayonaise jar on Funk & Wagnell's back 
porch.  Nobody knows them, but in the moderator's mystical and borderline 
devine way, he knows what they are without having seen them.

>    -- Isn't this just another example of 'netcoppism'?

   Probably, but we think he's dead now and all articles just go through 
automatically, so nobody cares.  It's like voting in Chicago.

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