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From: ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: How can a moderator take a vacation? (Re: comp.sources.unix)
Summary: queue it
Message-ID: <1826@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 04:19:40 GMT
References: <184@twwells.uucp> <7681@well.UUCP> <200@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby)
Organization: Silo Tech, Fargo
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In article <200@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:

[long flamage deleted for sanity]

>Any comments?

Depending on how long the moderator is going on vacation and how long
is outgoing queue is, it might be very possible to set up "at" jobs to
automagicaly post the stuff daily.  It sounds like Rich $alz does this anyway
(I gather that from him making a remark about writing "at" jobs in an INF
posting a while back).

Most of the major dry spells I've seen haven't been due to a moderator taking
a vacation, but rather his system getting messed up (ncoast did this a while
back) or just plain being too busy at work to tend to the group for a short time.
There is little that can be done about systems crashing; we live with that
all the time anyway.  In the latter case, the moderator generally gives up
the reigns after a while.

Dry spells aren't all that bad, either.  It gives you time to port the stuff
to your machine that didn't run on it in the first place!

I guess as a parting statement, I'll say don't bittch about the service that
these guys give us; I don't know of ONE of them thats being paid to moderate
a group.  Or are you volunteering to take over?

Glen Overby
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