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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Moderation of comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Message-ID: <9901@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 19:07:06 GMT
References: <2133@polya.STANFORD.EDU> <12576@sgi.SGI.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Summary: settle the moderator question - now
Bcc: backbone@cbosgd



  I'm not sure that a moderator SHOULD keep all non-postings out of this
group, given that the is no .d group, and some site wouldn't carry it if
there were. What a moderator could do is to digestify the non-binary
posting, and send out periodic requests (preferably just a list, rather
than the text of the posting), bug lists with fixes, etc.

  Things which have no relevance to the group, such as the discussion of
MEAN18, could be digested and posted anywhere else. After the one note
saying that it was a pirate copy, what more is directly pertinent. This
is as thrilling as the "shareware - bah humbug" discussion in bim.pc
group.

  If a moderator did even the slightest work by posting things in even
reasonably good format, I would be happy. I don't care who does it, but
we have had our thumb in our fundaments for a long time.

  PROPOSAL: let anyone who wants to be moderator send me his/her net
address and as much information as will fit on one screen about how the
job should be done, and anything else.  I will post a message consisting
of all of the applications (if I get any) on March 25th, and accept
votes until April 8th, at which time I will post the results to the net. 
After that I will wash my hands of the whole thing. 

  My major qualification for this is that no one else is doing anything
but complain. I'm not sure that this will help, but at least we can see
if anyone cares.

  Send your resumes to my signature, please, return paths don't return.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me