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[Most recent change: 23 September 1985 by spaf]

A number of moderated groups exist on the net.  These are groups which
have one or more individuals (acting as editors and/or moderators) who
must approve articles before they are published to the net.  In
general, these groups fall into one of four categories:

1) Groups with postings of an informative nature not suited to
   discussion and always originating from the same (very small) group
   of posters.  Groups within this category include mod.newslists,
   net.annouce.newusers, and mod.map.

2) Groups derived from "net" groups with such a high volume that
   it is hard for the average reader to keep up.  The moderated
   versions of these groups are an attempt to provide a lower volume
   and higher quality version of the same forum.  Examples of
   this category include net.announce and mod.unix.

3) Groups derived from "net" groups which have often been abused.
   That is, the "net" groups often received postings of items which
   were not germane to the stated topic of the group (or sometimes even
   within the realm of politeness for the net).  This also includes
   groups suffering from an annoying number of duplicate postings and
   innappropriate followups.  Moderated groups in this category include
   mod.sources and mod.motss.

4) Groups designed to serve also as direct feedback to an off-the-net
   group.  The discussions in mod.std.mumps and mod.std.c fall into this
   category.

To post to a "mod" group, write your article and mail it to the listed
address.  The moderator will then do the actual posting of the
article to the net.  The news software on the net will not allow direct
posting to moderated newsgroups, nor will it forward unauthorized
articles to other sites.  The only way to post to a moderated group is
to mail it to the moderator.

Depending on the newsgroup involved, if the moderator feels that your
article is inappropriate for the group, s/he will return the article to
you with a suggestion for other newsgroups in which to post it, and/or
an explanation of why it is not appropriate for the moderated group.
You may still post such articles to the "net" groups as you currently
do.

If you have questions or complaints about the way a moderated group is
run, contact the moderator by mail.  Alternatively, you can send mail
to the mailing list "moderators@cbosgd.UUCP" and it will be rebroadcast
to all of the current newsgroup moderators.

Below is a list of the current moderated groups and the moderators of
those groups. Included in that list are the addresses to use if you
have questions of comments about the groups. After that is given a list
of addresses for submissions of articles to those groups. If your site
is running 2.10.2 or later news, these addresses can be used to build
the "moderators" file so that "postnews" can automatically mail an
article to the correct moderator.  If you are NOT running 2.10.2 news,
you are *STRONGLY* advised to upgrade to it so as to take advantage of
this feature, as well as the numerous bug fixes and other
enhancements.

For those of you not currently using the UUCP map data, the following
can be used to derive mail paths:
	...!ihnp4!abnji
	...!{akgua,gatech,ihnp4,ulysses}!cbosgd
	...!{decvax,linus,wjh12}!bbncca
	...!{akgua,decvax,philabs}!mcnc!ecsvax
	...!{akgua,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ulysses}!gatech
	...!{decvax,linus,mit-eddie,masscomp}!genrad
	...!{akgua,ihnp4,ulysses}!hou2e
	...!{cbosgd,ihnp4,seismo}!plus5
	...!{cbosgd,decvax,gatech,ihnp4,ulysses}!seismo
	...!{gatech,harvard,ihnp4,seismo}!ut-sally
	...!ucbvax!ucbopal


Gene Spafford 
1 October 1985
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Group			Moderator(s)		Requests, Comments, etc.
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mod.general		James Armstrong, Jr.	nyssa@abnji
mod.map			Mark Horton		mark@cbosgd
mod.motss		Steve Dyer		motss@bbncca
mod.movies		Byron Howes		movies@ecsvax
mod.music		Greg Skinner		gregbo@hou2e
mod.newprod		Ron Heiby		newprod-request@cbosgd
mod.newslists		Gene Spafford		spaf@gatech
			Rick Adams		rick@seismo
mod.politics		James Armstrong, Jr.	nyssa@abnji
mod.rec			(none currently)
mod.rec.guns		Jordan K. Hubbard	jkh@ucbopal
mod.sources		John Nelson		john@genrad
mod.std			Mark Horton		mark@cbosgd
mod.std.c		Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz	std-c@cbosgd
mod.std.mumps		Hokey			std-mumps-request@plus5
mod.std.unix		John Quarterman		std-unix-request@ut-sally
mod.test		(none currently)
mod.unix		Ron Heiby		unix-request@cbosgd
net.announce		Mark Horton		announce@cbosgd
net.announce.newusers	Gene Spafford		spaf@gatech

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Group			Submissions
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mod.general		general@abnji
mod.map			uucpmap@cbosgd
mod.motss		motss@bbncca
mod.newprod		newprod@cbosgd
mod.newslists		usenet@gatech,rick@seismo
mod.politics		politics@abnji
mod.rec.guns		jkh@ucbopal
mod.sources		sources@genrad
mod.std			mark@cbosgd
mod.std.c		std-c@cbosgd
mod.std.mumps		std-mumps@plus5
mod.std.unix		std-unix@ut-sally
mod.unix		unix@cbosgd
net.announce		announce@cbosgd
net.announce.newusers	usenet@gatech