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Article #258List of Moderators (Last changed: 7 October 1985)
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1985 04:17
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1985 04:17
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[Most recent change: 7 October 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
15 October 1985
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Group Moderator(s) Requests, Comments, etc.
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mod.map Mark Horton mark@cbosgd.UUCP
mod.motss Steve Dyer motss@bbncca.UUCP
mod.movies Byron Howes movies@ecsvax.UUCP
mod.music Greg Skinner gregbo@hou2e.UUCP
mod.newprod Ron Heiby newprod-request@cbosgd.UUCP
mod.newslists Gene Spafford spaf@gatech.UUCP
Rick Adams rick@seismo.UUCP
mod.politics James Armstrong, Jr. nyssa@abnji.UUCP
mod.rec (none currently)
mod.rec.guns Jordan K. Hubbard jkh@ucbopal.UUCP
mod.sources John Nelson john@genrad.UUCP
mod.std Mark Horton mark@cbosgd.UUCP
mod.std.c Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz std-c@cbosgd.UUCP
mod.std.mumps Hokey std-mumps-request@plus5.UUCP
mod.std.unix John Quarterman std-unix-request@ut-sally.UUCP
mod.test (none currently)
mod.unix Ron Heiby unix-request@cbosgd.UUCP
net.announce Mark Horton announce@cbosgd.UUCP
net.announce.newusers Gene Spafford spaf@gatech.UUCP
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Group Submissions
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mod.map uucpmap@cbosgd.UUCP
mod.motss motss@bbncca.UUCP
mod.newprod newprod@cbosgd.UUCP
mod.newslists usenet@gatech.UUCP,rick@seismo.UUCP
mod.politics politics@abnji.UUCP
mod.rec.guns jkh@ucbopal.UUCP
mod.sources sources@genrad.UUCP
mod.std mark@cbosgd.UUCP
mod.std.c std-c@cbosgd.UUCP
mod.std.mumps std-mumps@plus5.UUCP
mod.std.unix std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP
mod.unix unix@cbosgd.UUCP
net.announce announce@cbosgd.UUCP
net.announce.newusers usenet@gatech.UUCP
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gatech.CSNET Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!gatech!usenet From: usenet@gatech.CSNET Newsgroups: mod.newslists,net.announce.newusers,net.news.group Subject: List of Moderators (Last changed: 7 October 1985) Message-ID: <1512@gatech.CSNET> Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 00:17:01 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.1512 Posted: Tue Oct 15 00:17:01 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Oct-85 08:16:25 EDT Sender: spaf@gatech.CSNET Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech Lines: 117 Approved: spaf@gatech.CSNET