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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc,news.stargate,news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: the USENET problems
Message-ID: <1003@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Jul-87 17:45:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: van-bc.1003
Posted: Sun Jul 12 17:45:15 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jul-87 05:46:05 EDT
References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <15982@gatech.gatech.edu>
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In article <6657@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> jesup@mizar.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>		Mail to which Moderator?
>			(1) page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (shortest path)
>			(2) jesup@ge-crd.arpa
>			(3) anyman@anyunix.uucp

Good idea!

>	It could have different moderators for different parts of the net
>(hard), or could try to estimate which is the easiest to reach (not easy),
>or not bother, in deciding the ordering.  That way, when moderators go on
>vacation, the users could route to the others, etc.  The moderators could

Alternatively for groups where a second moderator is not acceptable (ie,
mag.otherrealms, risks, arms-d etc) the moderator could set up a forwarding
address to some live person to either act as an interim moderator or at
least send a reply that the message was received and will be acted on when
the moderator gets back on such and such a date.

I believe that comp.sources.misc has already setup and alternate person at
his site to handle things when he is unavailable.


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