Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!bloom-beacon!think!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!cbosgd!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc,news.stargate,news.sysadmin,news.admin Subject: Re: the USENET problems Message-ID: <2921@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 23:40:38 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.2921 Posted: Thu Jul 16 23:40:38 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 19:46:40 EDT References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <15982@gatech.gatech.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 23 Xref: mnetor news.groups:1254 news.misc:774 news.stargate:258 news.sysadmin:311 news.admin:709 As quoted from <1003@van-bc.UUCP> by sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne): +--------------- | Alternatively for groups where a second moderator is not acceptable (ie, | mag.otherrealms, risks, arms-d etc) the moderator could set up a forwarding | address to some live person to either act as an interim moderator or at | least send a reply that the message was received and will be acted on when | the moderator gets back on such and such a date. | | I believe that comp.sources.misc has already setup and alternate person at | his site to handle things when he is unavailable. +--------------- True, but comp.sources.misc is hand;ed differently from the majority of moderated groups. It's easy to have seconds when your job is to trash non-sources and get the stuff out _pronto_, but a second moderator for rec.arts.movies.reviews or rec.mag.otherrealms would (I should hope) take some thought. -- [Copyright 1987 Brandon S. Allbery, all rights reserved] \ ncoast 216 781 6201 [Redistributable only if redistribution is subsequently permitted.] \ 2400 bd. Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{ames,harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,{well,ihnp4}!hoptoad,cbosgd}!ncoast!allbery <>