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From: woods@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Administrativia & Possible Lost Postings
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Date: 5 Jun 89 16:24:41 GMT
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Apologies to all: This group is multiply-moderated, as I'm sure everyone knows
(even I do not know which moderator will get this posting). It works by having
all postings mailed to an alias here at ncar.ucar.edu, which is a program that
reads a file of moderator addresses and mails randomly to one of them. I
was debugging this program last Friday before I sent out the newgroup message
creating this group. Unintentionally, the debugging switches were left turned
on over the weekend, so that any postings that came in via the normal
USENET posting software were probably not sent on to a moderator. It should
be functioning normally as of now, but some postings probably went down the
black hole over the weekend. I apologize for the inconvenience. I presume
the moderators are planning on letting posters know when a posting has been
rejected; if that is so, and you posted something over the weekend and have
not either seen your posting or gotten a reply from one of the moderators,
you should repost it. Again, sorry for the screw-up.
  This group serves as more than a discussion of feminism; it is also
a USENET experiment in multiple moderators. I am of the opinion that having
more than one moderator may solve some of the major problems of moderated
groups on USENET (which are moderators disappearing temporarily due to 
vacations, and moderators becoming overworked, both of which result in delays
in getting postings out). It will be very interesting to see how that aspect
of this new group works.

--Greg (woods@ncar.ucar.edu)