Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site genrad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!john From: john@genrad.UUCP (John Nelson) Newsgroups: mod.sources Subject: Policy Statement Message-ID: <416@genrad.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 08:50:26 EDT Article-I.D.: genrad.416 Posted: Mon Oct 22 08:50:26 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Oct-84 02:09:49 EDT Organization: GenRad, Bolton, Mass. Lines: 43 Approved: john@genrad.UUCP If you are anything like me, you have totally ignored the discussion on net.news.group about moderated newssgroups, so I am re-posting my official policy statement here. Please send me submissions at "genrad!sources" so that we can get this newsgroup going. Mod.sources is intended to be an alternative to the unmoderated net.sources which has of late had many inappropriate articles. mod.sources is especially useful to those who archive the entire sources newsgroup automatically. mod.sources would provide several services: 1. Filtering out requests, and other inappropriate articles. 2. Making sure the submission survived intact through uucp before it is posted to the net at large. 3. Making sure that articles are in chunks small enough to be recieved intact on ALL systems (this means chunks <= 64K) 4. Bundling of bug reports into single articles. As moderator, I will not censor the material, but (since I usually try out most programs for System V or Berkeley 4.2) I might add my evaluation (or point out any obvious bugs or local dependencies to the author) before posting. I may send out pointers to the source articles on the appropriate related newsgroup (net.unix-wizards for example) and provide a mailing service to those who do not get net.sources on their machine (although I haven't got an arpa connection). Mod.sources is an experiment, and will run as an alternative to net.sources for awhile (i.e. articles will not be posted on BOTH). If the idea catches on, we can eliminate net.sources, and use mod.sources exclusively. Sources can be mailed to me at: {decvax,mit-eddie,wjh12}!genrad!sources Requests for info about particular submissions can be sent to: {decvax,mit-eddie,wjh12}!genrad!sources-request /~\ (o o) | O | John P. Nelson (decvax!genrad!john) \v/ /---\