Why moderate? It's not the sort of group to attract major phone-sex ads, or something like that, and most of the other comp.sys groups are not moderated. Don't bother. Free Speech and your Time. :) -JRP R. Paul McCarty wrote: > I don't know how many messages between Gregory Pfeil and myself have been > copied to the wear-hard group, but we have been trying to get a > newsgroup started on usenet for people on this mailing list that would > prefer a newsgroup format to our discussions and to attract people > interested in discussing wearables who aren't aware of this mailing list. > This would also answer the need some people have expressed for archives of > the list. > > The initial RFD (Request For Discussion) never went to vote, but > there were suggestions that the group be moderated, rather than > unmoderated. I've revised the RFD to request a moderated group and I > think if it goes to a vote we should get it added without any problems. > I've put the RFD up at: > > http://reg16.admin.rochester.edu/~mccarty/comp.sys.wearables.html > > Right now, Gregory and I are listed as moderators and I would like to add > some additional moderators to the request to spread out the work of > approving messages. I'm also looking at robot-moderator (proc-mail) > scripts to automatically moderate 90% of the messages so moderating the > group might entail getting a few messages a day which need to be looked at > and approved if they are relevant to the group. If you would like to be > added as a moderator, please let me know and I will add you to the RFD. > > Also, if there are suggestions about changes to the RFD before I > submit this please let me know. I will post this sometime next week and > then about 2 weeks later there will be a vote. > > Also, if someone would like to host the site where we can automatically > moderate the group with a script that would be fantastic, otherwise I will > have to find an account somewhere where I can set up the bot for a long > period of time. > > Thanks for any feedback. > -Paul > > R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator // x52059 > 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 > Computers don't make mistakes;what they do,they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH
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