Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!jsq From: jsq@tic.com (John S. Quarterman) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: New moderator: speak now... Message-ID: <18289@cs.utexas.edu> Date: 4 Mar 91 20:22:16 GMT References: <17525@cs.utexas.edu> <17656@cs.utexas.edu> <18090@cs.utexas.edu> <18184@cs.utexas.edu> Sender: jsq@cs.utexas.edu Organization: Texas Internet Consulting, Austin, Texas 78701 Lines: 54 Approved: jsq@cs.utexas.edu (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) X-Submissions: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Submitted-by: jsq@tic.com (John S. Quarterman) The first article in the newsgroup comp.std.unix (then known as mod.std.unix) was posted 25 June 1985. Members of the IEEE P1003 standards committee (there was only one such committee back then) had requested that the new newsgroup be moderated to avoid the noise level seen on other newsgroups. To date there has been only one moderator, me. However, I would like to thank all those who have served from time to time as guest moderators, particularly John B. Chambers and Fletcher Mattox. As noted in previous postings, I have decided to retire as moderator. Subsequent to my posting of 31 January 1991 calling for volunteers to be moderator, six people came forward by the deadline of 15 February (and a couple of others said they would volunteer if nobody else did). The last to definitely volunteer by the deadline was Chuck Karish, who, by the rules I had stated, then proceeded to determine which of the volunteers was to become moderator. He chose to do this by discussions among the volunteers for the position. I have been informed by both Chuck and by Sean Eric Fagan that Sean was chosen by the withdrawals from candidacy of all the other volunteers. Chuck announced this result in his posting to the newsgroup of 26 February. He also announced If I don't hear anything within a week of the time I see this posting come back from John, I'll send an announcement to news.announce.newgroups that the reins have been shifted. While I have deliberately given no advice as to who should be moderator or how the new moderator should run the newsgroup, and I deliberately did not participate in the decision process by which Sean was chosen from among the six candidates, I would nonetheless like to assert that the procedure outlined above was as I had requested. I have seen no objections to Sean Eric Fagan being the new moderator of comp.std.unix. Unless I see some or Chuck Karish informs me that he has seen some, I will post the final article in comp.std.unix Volume 22 before midnight CST Wednesday 6 March 1991. Sean Eric Fagan will take over Thursday as moderator of comp.std.unix. He is already in the aliases std-unix@uunet.uu.net (postings) and std-unix-request@uunet.uu.net (comments), and has apparently decided to keep those aliases, so there should be no lost submissions. The outgoing moderator hopes the new moderator has a successful newsgroup. John S. Quarterman jsq@tic.com +1-512-320-9031 fax: +1-512-320-5821 Texas Internet Consulting 701 Brazos Suite 500 Austin, Texas 78701 Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 136