Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!bu-cs!m2c!ulowell!page From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc,news.stargate,news.sysadmin,news.admin Subject: Re: the USENET problems Message-ID: <1508@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 14:32:13 EDT Article-I.D.: ulowell.1508 Posted: Mon Jul 13 14:32:13 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jul-87 06:40:22 EDT References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <15982@gatech.gatech.edu> Reply-To: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) Organization: University of Lowell Lines: 35 Xref: mnetor news.groups:1238 news.misc:761 news.stargate:254 news.sysadmin:307 news.admin:699 jesup@mizar.UUCP (Randell Jesup) wrote: > Mail to which Moderator? > (1) page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (shortest path) > (2) jesup@ge-crd.arpa > (3) anyman@anyunix.uucp This may cause more trouble than it solves ... it means users get to pick. As much as possible, the software should do the work. Most sites don't even have a moderator's list; they just forward it to some backbone site that sends it to the moderator. If we go back to the old way of "everyone maintains their own moderators file" we'll probably (as a net) get worse performance, since many, many admins don't update their moderators files. A modification of the 'checkgroups' message could be cooked up to sync moderators, but many UUCP sites don't run auto-routing mailers; they'd require full bang path routing from here to there. However, your proposal is worth considering from the point of multiple moderators. For example, news.lists is sent to two moderators, usenet@gatech.edu and rick@seismo.css.gov ... it would mean some coordinating work had to be done by the moderators, but would reduce delays in reposting the message, and would provide multiple mail paths to the moderators, increasing reliability of delivery. The best part about this: it can be done NOW, with no changes to the software. The user doesn't have to learn anything new, either. It's an interim solution, but it would help. Now it just means a group moderator has to agree to 'share' the duties. I don't know if you'd get many, but that's a different problem. ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}