On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:31:32 -0000, Jim Logajan wrote in :

Larry Dighera wrote:
The rec.aviation.stories newsgroup is not for follow up discussion, so
it may not have been the right forum for this thread depending on what
the OP had in mind when he started this message thread.

You can of course modify the charter or try experimental (i.e. temporary)
changes to the charter if you feel it would be useful. As moderator you
pretty much "own" the group.

The stories group appears to have been dormant many years before the
original moderator died. Perhaps allowing follow-ups might be useful - in
this case the thread itself was a call for stories and it appears most of
them would have been appropriate to that group. IMHO I suspect the original
r.a.s charter was flawed - shorter stories should have been allowed as well
as follow-ups.

Jim is a longtime Usenet moderator. He knows more
about this stuff than I do.

He's 100% right.

You're free to modify the policies of the group
as time goes on.

See what works.

A newsgroup with no news is no fun. (

Marty
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