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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Need new moderator for comp.{sources,binaries}.amiga
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Date: 12 Dec 89 03:37:18 GMT
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As you know, Bob Page is going to stop moderating the Amiga sources
and binaries groups at the end of the year.  He has asked that a
potential new moderator come forward, and that we discuss/decide upon
a new moderator ourselves in comp.sys.amiga.

I would like to offer my services as moderator of comp.sources.amiga
and comp.binaries.amiga.  I believe that I have the time and resources
to devote to these newsgroups to ensure reasonable turnaround.  Many
of you already know me as the maintainer of the Xanth Archives, a long
time archive site of Amiga software.  My contact site of
xanth.cs.odu.edu is easily reachable on the IP Internet and via UUCP
(being registered in HOSTS.TXT, the DNS, and the UUCP Mapping Project).

If I were to be moderator, I would perform much as Bob has (no
testing, repackage everything into consistent uuencoded split zoo
files, etc.)  I would probably choose a different naming scheme
(something more similar to comp.sources.unix, where multi-part
postings appear in the archives as Part01.Z, etc), although I could be
convinced to do otherwise.

Bob has served as a great moderator, and I'm sorry to see him go.  He
asked that the discussion of this issue be in comp.sys.amiga, so let's
get to it...

Comments?

	...tad