Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!akgua!gatech!usenet From: usenet@gatech.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.newslists,net.news.group,net.announce.newusers Subject: List of Moderators Message-ID: <11321@gatech.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 00:26:27 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.11321 Posted: Sat Dec 15 00:26:27 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 05:18:31 EST Expires: Sat, 5-Jan-85 00:26:27 EST Sender: spaf@gatech.UUCP Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech Lines: 111 Approved: spaf@gatech.UUCP Xref: watmath mod.newslists:24 net.news.group:2641 net.announce.newusers:51 [Most recent change: 5 December 1984 by spaf] A number of "mod" groups exists on the net. These are groups with 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. "mod" groups in this category include mod.sources, mod.motss, and mod.singles. 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. Also given are some possible mail paths by which you can reach them. 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. Gene Spafford 15 December 1984 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Newsgroup Moderator and mail path ------------------------------------------------------------------ mod.map Mark Horton ...!{akgua,ihnp4,ulysses}!cbosgd!mark mod.map.news Karen Summers-Horton ...!{akgua,ihnp4,ulysses}!cbosgd!map mod.map.uucp Karen Summers-Horton ...!{akgua,ihnp4,ulysses}!cbosgd!uucpmap mod.motss Steve Dyer ...!{decvax,linus,wjh12}!bbncca!motss mod.movies Byron Howes ...!{akgua,decvax,philabs}!mcnc!ecsvax!movies mod.music Greg Skinner ...!{akgua,ihnp4,ulysses}!hou2e!gregbo mod.newslists Gene Spafford and Rick Adams ...!{akgua,ihnp4,hplabs,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!usenet ...!{akgua,decvax,gatech,ihnp4,ulysses}!seismo!rick mod.singles Chuq Von Rospach (nsc!singles-request) ...!{amd,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!singles mod.sources John Nelson (genrad!john) ...!{allegra,decvax,mit-eddie,wjh12}!genrad!sources mod.std none -- Contact Mark Horton (cbosgd!mark) mod.std.c Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz ...!{akgua,ihnp4,ulysses}!cbosgd!std-c mod.std.mumps Hokey ...!{ihnp4}!plus5!std-mumps mod.unix Tom Teixeira ...!{decvax,gatech,ihnp4}!masscomp!unix net.announce Mark Horton ...!{akgua,ihnp4,ulysses}!cbosgd!announce net.announce.newusers Gene Spafford ...!{akgua,ihnp4,hplabs,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!usenet -- Gene "8 months and counting" Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf