Re: Newsgroups beef (was Stock inflaters?)

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> WazoO wrote:
>
> > Yeah, but .... links to news://news.spamcop.net were added to Forum
> > page,
>
> It is true that a newsreader accessing that link news.spamcop.net from
> the forum page will be provided with a list of newsgroups which includes
> all of the newsgroups including control, control cancel, spamcop,
> spamcop.geeks, spamcop.help, spamcop.mail, spamcop.routing,
> spamcop.social, spamcop.spam and spamcop.test -- and it is also true
> that the newsserver provides descriptions.   But...  *EXCEPT* you will
> notice that the descriptions carry no descriptions of spamcop.mail -- 
> strange how that works.

Maybe I need to reset or something, but I don't see descriptions for any
of the newsgroups (OE6) ..???

> There seems to be some confusion about the concept that all wiki/s are
> totally 'open' to being altered by anyone who feels like it.  There are
> many many ways to control wiki access and wiki changes and wiki changes
> oversight.

Won't argue the concept, but ... I've been looking at some of the 'free'
wiki things out there and not all of them go to that level of control, not
all of them are noted for security in general,  .... most seem to be put
together by the programming types looking at the functionality and
display .. the protection from hacking seems to come up a bit later on <g>

> > But the wiki concept just doesn't really seem plausible, when looking
> > at all the "friendlies" out there that would have a field-day with the
> > opportunity to post that 'perfectly distinctive' dialog to get thier
> > point across ...
>
> I have never believed that a wiki should be totally universally
> accessible to change.

There are those that limit 'control' over posting to some Moderator
types, others that go the "Registration" route, others that offer a
"roll-back"
capability ... but that all goes back to having folks around to handle
any of these actions.  That effort wasn't around back when the FAQ-o-
Matic thing was accessible by mere users, that effort hasn't been
demonstrated in getting the many / various "How-To" tutorials
developed but by a very few,  on and on ....

> > On the other hand,
> > I'll point out that you're (probably) included in a recent Topic in
> > the Lounge area ... <G>
>
> I looked into lounge, but I couldn't figger what you are alluding to.

catch the word "diatribe" in the Title ...