Moderation of this newsgroup

[Simon Dobbs]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:56:21 +0100, Douglas B. Kell wrote
(in message <3EEF3A9F.29132.18E107A at localhost>):

> Any spam-removing moderation will be welcomed by me!
> 
> Douglas.
> 
>> Gary,
>> 
>> we've had discussions before about moderation. If my memory is
>> correct, the only reason why we did not go ahead with this is because
>> the original founder of the newsgroup is no longer active here and we
>> couldn't change the settings. If you are able to do this, I think
>> everyone would be very grateful. (but knowing the strong-minded bunch
>> we are, there will be different opinions in followups now)
>> 
>> Pedro
> 

I am unsure about this- on demon's newserver there has been virtually no 
traffic on this group for the past two years, exept the odd spam (one every 
fortnight or so, which shows it is still working), which really amounts to 
nothing compared with other groups. I agree, and hope that there may be 
renewed interest in metabolic regulation, which maybe stimulated by Peter 
Rich's recent essay in nature, but as yet we are hardly inundated with 
information - is the initiator of this thread  trying some sort of 
'pre-emptive strike" in order to attain some sort of control of the heirarchy 
or a kind of respectability due to moderation of a number of groups (sorry- 
that sounds pretty paranoid!).
as i see it this group is almost dead, and certainly doesn't need moderation.


apologies for appearing negative