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Subject: NEW AMIGA MODERATOR
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Date: Sat, 4-Apr-87 03:40:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  4 03:40:19 1987
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Ok, April Fools Day has come and gone, and I think that it's time to reveal
the joke: our amiga moderator isn't coming back! Sure, I know he *intends*
to, but that's the funny thing; he never quite makes it! Get it? Ha-ha! He
sure fooled us!

Seriously, it's been at least six months, hasn't it? And I checked the
archives on "j.cc.purdue.edu", and they have not been modified since
March 11, which is another indication that "doc" has fled to Venezuala,
or at least is too busy to bother with things. Personally, I don't
care what he promises from now on, I just want a "mod.amiga.sources" alive
and well. He has some mysterious problem; fine, but let's not let that get
in the way of getting the job done.

It's time to find another one. The job is to moderate mod.amiga.sources
and mod.amiga.binaries. The "mod.amiga" group is vacant for a reason: Mr.
Page says he didn't feel that it was fulfilling any purpose, so he quit.
But it is handy to have someone handling sources and binaries.

The moderator should be either on a backbone, or (more likely) on a system
that talks to a backbone. The moderator for mod.sources requires both
a Makefile and a manual page; similarly I would suggest that the mod.
amiga.sources moderator require documentation to go with programs. He
should be willing to test programs before releasing them to make sure they
work as advertised, and aren't just a total waste of time (and network
bandwidth), and perhaps add the little extra touch now and then, like
doing very minor editing (but only when he feels inspired) of the docs
or whatever else he deems fit. And of course, he should have a stable,
permanent account and system (a person with a student account that will
go away at the end of the quarter is not really ideal).

He should also be able to either keep mod.amiga.{sources,binaries} archives,
or to arrange for them to be kept on another machine (such as trantor.umd.edu,
which is doing a pretty good job of archiving right now), and to handle
various other details like that either by himself or by delegating to other
volunteers.

Here's a chance for incredible fame and glory while performing a service
for your fellow man (and Amoeboid); who'll be the first to volunteer?
Volunteers to simply assist the main moderator are also hereby solicited,
for instance to take over while he's visiting doc in Venezuala for a
couple of weeks :-)   (Or to help test programs, or whatever)
	Doug Merritt