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From: gerard@tscs.UUCP (Stephen M. Gerard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Moderation...
Keywords: ok, definatly time for it...
Message-ID: <149@tscs.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 06:04:08 GMT
References: <1424@polyslo.UUCP>
Reply-To: gerard@tscs.UUCP (Stephen M. Gerard)
Organization: Total Support Computer Systems, Tampa, Florida
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In article <1424@polyslo.UUCP> mdella@polyslo.UUCP (Marcos Della) writes:
>Its been awhile since people have hashed out who is or is not going to
>be a moderator here and if there is a real need... Looks like there might
>be a need, but the questions is there a want?
>
>Anyway, I'm still up on helping out with it if people want moderation...
>

There is a very definite need for moderation here!

I would very much like to see comp.binaries.ibm.pc moderated.  It would be
extremely nice not to have to go through and weed out the chit chat (Including
this article :-) ).  I do very much appreciate the quality postings that may
be found here and I hope that it can continue.  I know of sites that do not
wish to receive comp.binaries.ibm.pc because of the difficulty in weeding out
the misplaced material.

If there are any serious potential moderators out there, here are a few
features that I would like to see:

	* A standardized header for postings including:
		1. Program Name
		2. Version Number of Revision Date
		3. Author Name and Address
		4. Program Clasification (System Utility, Communications,
		   Business, Text Processing, etc.)
		5. A Source Code Included Flag
		6. A four to six line description of the program that is
		   not burried in a README file and especially NOT UUENCODED
		7. Hardware Requirements
		8. Software Compatibility (DOS, UNIX SV, UNIX BSD, etc)

	* A cataloging program that can read through headers with the
	  afore mentioned information that can print out a cross reference
	  list.

	* A standardized multi-system compatible archiving format such as
	  ARC.

I hope that someone can find time to moderate this group.  I feel that it
is a shame that the IBM PC is the most popular personal computer system and
we do not have moderated binary and source newsgroups.


Sincerely, Steve

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