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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: How can a moderator take a vacation? (Re: comp.sources.unix)
Message-ID: <203@twwells.uucp>
Date: 24 Nov 88 06:56:10 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <1826@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) writes:
: In article <200@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
: >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.

Well, that is much the same as making the group temporarily
unmoderated. This may or may not be a good thing.  For
comp.sources.stuff this doesn't help, as the postings should follow a
form which the moderator creates. Comp.archives, on the other hand,
contains both discussions and specially formatted postings; a mail
reflector, however implemented, only has to prevent resent postings
from looking like the specially formatted postings.  Other moderated
newsgroups are purely discussion groups, for them, this would be no
problem.

: 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?

Ahhh, perhaps you don't realize that I *already* moderate a
newsgroup, comp.archives?

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Bill
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