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Re: newsgroup comp.sys.wearables

From: "Jason R. Pascucci" <>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 20:00:00 -0400

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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