Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ti-csl.csc.ti.COM!NEURON-Request
From: NEURON-Request@ti-csl.csc.ti.COM (NEURON-Digest moderator Michael Gately)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: NEURON Digest
Message-ID: <8806140318.AA05780@ti.com>
Date: 13 Jun 88 14:33:11 GMT
Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: NEURON@ti-csl.csc.ti.com
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 64

NEURON Digest	Mon Jun 13 09:33:12 CDT 1988
 Volume 3 / Issue 11
Today's Topics:

 Moderation of the NEURON Digest

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 13 JUNE 1988, 9:30am
From: gately%ti.csl.com@cs.net.relay
Subject: Moderation of the NEURON Digest
 
To all NEURON subscribers:
 
As you may have noticed, my moderation of the NEURON digest
has been quite negligent.  My activities at both work and
home have increased dramatically in the past few months.
In the interest of keeping this Digest alive and well, I 
think that it is best if someone with a little more time
(and perhaps more UNIX and ARPANET experience) take over the
moderator position.
 
The network was originally set up in October of 1986 and
currently has a distribution of about 1000 addresses.  Of 
course many addresses are re-distribution sites, so I can
only take a guess at the actual membership (Ken Laws tried to
do this with the AIList Digest and did not do too well).
 
The method I have been using is to simply copy the incoming
mail into one of seven files; NEWS, QUERIES, REPLIES, CALL for
papers, CONFerences, BIBLIOgraphical stuff, and RANDOM.  I 
then use a simple UNIX script to join the files, remove the 
extraneous header information, and add new header information.
 
For me this all took place over a 2400 baud connection to a 
remote UNIX machine.  Next I would go into the file and 
doctor it up; fixing all the little things like messages
without Subject fields or removing random form feeds from
messages.  Finally, I use another script to send the message
out to the network.
 
I am sure that more talented UNIX programers can put together
better scripts.  I am also sure that somewhere on this planet
is a UNIX computer that has a faster response time than the one
I use.
 
The only hard problem to overcome in changing moderators will
be to convert some ofthe addresses from my CSNET format to
your (hopefully) INTERNet format; but this should be vy
straightforward.
 
Any takers?  Send a message to me at:
gatelyu%resbld.csl.ti.com@relay.cs.net
 
Regards,
Michael Gately
 
p.s.  I will try to send out another NEURON Digest (with
some real information in it) later this week.

------------------------------

End of NEURON-Digest
********************