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From: laird@chinet.chi.il.us (Laird J. Heal)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,connect.audit
Subject: Re: comp.sources.misc is quiet
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.133545.8283@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 18 Nov 90 13:35:45 GMT
References: <1990Nov17.145035.1960@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1990Nov17.145035.1960@ibmpcug.co.uk> demon@ibmpcug.co.uk (Cliff Stanford) writes:
>What's happened to comp.sources.misc?  Is it just that no-one's
>posted to it or has the moderator disappeared or what?

Brandon posted a call for offers to moderate it.  He said that his work had
gotten to the point that he could no longer spare the time.  I remember when
he and I used to share Sunday night conferences on Delphi, when he had plenty
of time to be on-line, and apparently it is still the same job, so I hope he
is making plenty of money at it.

I asked if I could step in, and while his response was guardedly positive, I
did not get a second reponse.  The one really important factor is that the
moderator should have Internet access.  Brandon dialed into Case Western for
comp.sources.misc purposes, and he suggested that attempting to moderate it
from a uucp site would be foolhardy given the number of archive sites that
need to be maintained.

He also said that it took about two hours a week of his time (probably after
a few years of practice) even with the need to do such kindhearted deeds as
send copies of files to people who, as he put it, thought that the moderator
had nothing better to do with his time than look up files for them.

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