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From: prabhu@nas.nasa.gov (Dinesh K. Prabhu)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: Re: Administrivia and other things
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Date: 14 Dec 90 07:00:33 GMT
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    Hi Folks,

       I have gotten in touch with William Mayne and he has agreed to
       moderate the newsgroup. As soon as I get his preferred e-mail
       address I will inform both Gene Spafford (USENET) and this
       newsgroup about the change. This should take a few days and I
       hope the transition will be fairly smooth.

       I have been getting increasing e-mail about people not seeing
       their articles on this newsgroup. I have on occasion reposted
       a couple of articles. I am sorry about this but I am no expert
       on USENET and its idiosyncracies and reposting the article is
       about the only thing I can do. With the newer version of Pnews
       (postnews) you should be able to post directly to the newsgroup
       and the article should get routed to me since the group is
       moderated. This might be a problem with some sites. The safest
       alternative is to e-mail the article to me directly at the
       following address :  prabhu@amelia.nas.nasa.gov . I encourage
       all contributors to follow the latter method. I think it is
       quicker too. I normally post all articles after 7 PM-ish (PST)
       and sometimes much later at night. If your articles reach me
       before this time you'll get the best turnaround. Starting this
       weekend I will post statistics of how many articles have been
       posted during the week. This will make it easier to track
       missing articles. I keep about fifteen days worth of articles
       and I can e-mail missing articles on request.
       
       Now about the "Lotus Sutra" debate - I would much rather people
       turned down the heat in the articles. Not too many people have
       complained and so we can probably carry on with the debate and
       hope the debate ends naturally. I really do not want to step in
       and end it (I will if I feel things are really getting out of
       hand).

       Regards

       Dinesh
       (prabhu@amelia.nas.nasa.gov)