Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:5578 news.sysadmin:3414 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unmvax!ariel.unm.edu!gauss.unm.edu!sfreed From: sfreed@gauss.unm.edu (Steve Freed) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: "peer review" style of moderation Message-ID: <1990Dec3.053323.6495@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 3 Dec 90 05:33:23 GMT References: <1990Nov24.163906.19793@chinet.chi.il.us> <971@iiasa.UUCP> <1990Nov28.170948.11146@sceard.Sceard.COM> <1990Nov30.022320.6793@ico.isc.com> Sender: news@ariel.unm.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: sfreed@gauss.unm.edu (Steve Freed) Organization: University of New Mexico Math. & Stat. Dept., Albq, NM Lines: 28 In article , abeals@autodesk.com (Plu festu, uloj) writes: > A better way would be to have multiple moderators - each moderator gets > a copy of each submission. If the moderator thinks it's worth sending out, > s/he drops a copy onto the newsgroup ****using a modified copy of the > original message-id**** [<- yo, important point there]. The big problem with this is you get multiple people doing the same thing. If you and I were moderators, and you were checking out package "pdq" which contains 2 megs of shar'd files, and were just about to post it in the next day or so, I would really want to know this before investing 5 or 10 hours of my time checking out the package, duplicating your efforts. Multiple moderators would have to be in constant communication to avoid duplicating efforts. I think the best way to handle this is to have one main or head moderator who farms out pending sources to the other modorators. The method of doing this would be worked out with the different moderators. At some point next spring, I will probably be in a position where I could be one of the moderators or possibly the head moderator, but possibly Rich $alz would be able to continue on in such a capacity. As we all cary on like this, I have yet to see his view on the matter. Has anyone had the courtesy to send him email to ask him what he thinks? -- Thanks, Steve. sfreed@ariel.unm.edu Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com