Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gatech.CSNET Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!usenet From: usenet@gatech.CSNET Newsgroups: mod.newslists,net.announce.newusers,net.news.group Subject: List of Moderators (Last changed: 14 September 1985) Message-ID: <1250@gatech.CSNET> Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 00:17:29 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.1250 Posted: Sun Sep 15 00:17:29 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 05:32:49 EDT Expires: Sun, 6-Oct-85 00:17:29 EDT Sender: spaf@gatech.CSNET Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech Lines: 119 Approved: spaf@gatech.CSNET Xref: linus mod.newslists:182 net.announce.newusers:1017 net.news.group:3090 [Most recent change: 14 September 1985 by spaf] A number of moderated groups exist on the net. These are groups which have one or more individuals (acting as editors and/or moderators) who must approve articles before they are published to the net. In general, these groups fall into one of four categories: 1) Groups with postings of an informative nature not suited to discussion and always originating from the same (very small) group of posters. Groups within this category include mod.newslists, net.annouce.newusers, and mod.map. 2) Groups derived from "net" groups with such a high volume that it is hard for the average reader to keep up. The moderated versions of these groups are an attempt to provide a lower volume and higher quality version of the same forum. Examples of this category include net.announce and mod.unix. 3) Groups derived from "net" groups which have often been abused. That is, the "net" groups often received postings of items which were not germane to the stated topic of the group (or sometimes even within the realm of politeness for the net). This also includes groups suffering from an annoying number of duplicate postings and innappropriate followups. Moderated groups in this category include mod.sources and mod.motss. 4) Groups designed to serve also as direct feedback to an off-the-net group. The discussions in mod.std.mumps and mod.std.c fall into this category. To post to a "mod" group, write your article and mail it to the listed address. The moderator will then do the actual posting of the article to the net. The news software on the net will not allow direct posting to moderated newsgroups, nor will it forward unauthorized articles to other sites. The only way to post to a moderated group is to mail it to the moderator. Depending on the newsgroup involved, if the moderator feels that your article is inappropriate for the group, s/he will return the article to you with a suggestion for other newsgroups in which to post it, and/or an explanation of why it is not appropriate for the moderated group. You may still post such articles to the "net" groups as you currently do. If you have questions or complaints about the way a moderated group is run, contact the moderator by mail. Alternatively, you can send mail to the mailing list "moderators@cbosgd.UUCP" and it will be rebroadcast to all of the current newsgroup moderators. Below is a list of the current moderated groups and the moderators of those groups. Included in that list are the addresses to use if you have questions of comments about the groups. After that is given a list of addresses for submissions of articles to those groups. If your site is running 2.10.2 or later news, these addresses can be used to build the "moderators" file so that "postnews" can automatically mail an article to the correct moderator. If you are NOT running 2.10.2 news, you are *STRONGLY* advised to upgrade to it so as to take advantage of this feature, as well as the numerous bug fixes and other enhancements. For those of you not currently using the UUCP map data, the following can be used to derive mail paths: ...!ihnp4!abnji ...!{akgua,gatech,ihnp4,ulysses}!cbosgd ...!{decvax,linus,wjh12}!bbncca ...!{akgua,decvax,philabs}!mcnc!ecsvax ...!{akgua,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ulysses}!gatech ...!{decvax,linus,mit-eddie,masscomp}!genrad ...!{decwrl,dual,pesnta,qantel}!greipa ...!{akgua,ihnp4,ulysses}!hou2e ...!{cbosgd,ihnp4,seismo}!plus5 ...!{cbosgd,decvax,gatech,ihnp4,ulysses}!seismo ...!{gatech,harvard,ihnp4,seismo}!ut-sally Gene Spafford 15 September 1985 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Group Moderator(s) Requests, Comments, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------ mod.general James Armstrong, Jr. nyssa@abnji mod.map Mark Horton mark@cbosgd mod.motss Steve Dyer motss@bbncca mod.movies Byron Howes movies@ecsvax mod.music Greg Skinner gregbo@hou2e mod.newprod Ron Heiby newprod-request@cbosgd mod.newslists Gene Spafford spaf@gatech Rick Adams rick@seismo mod.politics James Armstrong, Jr. nyssa@abnji mod.rec (none currently) mod.rec.guns Jordan K. Hubbard jordan@greipa mod.sources John Nelson john@genrad mod.std Mark Horton mark@cbosgd mod.std.c Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz std-c@cbosgd mod.std.mumps Hokey std-mumps-request@plus5 mod.std.unix John Quarterman std-unix-request@ut-sally mod.test (none currently) mod.unix Ron Heiby unix-request@cbosgd net.announce Mark Horton announce@cbosgd net.announce.newusers Gene Spafford spaf@gatech ------------------------------------------------------------------ Group Submissions ------------------------------------------------------------------ mod.general general@abnji mod.map uucpmap@cbosgd mod.motss motss@bbncca mod.newprod newprod@cbosgd mod.newslists usenet@gatech,rick@seismo mod.politics politics@abnji mod.rec.guns guns@greipa mod.sources sources@genrad mod.std mark@cbosgd mod.std.c std-c@cbosgd mod.std.mumps std-mumps@plus5 mod.std.unix std-unix@ut-sally mod.unix unix@cbosgd net.announce announce@cbosgd net.announce.newusers usenet@gatech Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com