mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (12/30/83)
I've posted a version control message to mod.msg.ctl to see how far mod.all was being distributed. It seems to have made it to about 1/4 of Usenet. The major parts of Usenet that are getting mod.all are Bell Labs in Indian Hill, Whippany, Murray Hill, plus most of New England and Canada. Backbone sites around hplabs, hao, we13, burl, and duke also get it. Missing from the response list are the areas around tektronix, uw-beaver, zehntel, sdcrdcf, sdcsvax, spanky, and all of Europe. In addition, large parts of the net were missing, including almost all of Silicon Valley, the North Carolina area, Bell Labs Holmdel, Western Electric and the BOC's, Purdue (except for pur-ee), Berkeley, parts near cca, ima, ittvax, neighbors of decvax, philabs, utcsrgv, and seismo, and most of Bell Labs in Piscataway. Unless there was some problem with sending mail back (I suspect this was the case at Purdue), these sites should double check with their neighbors to make sure mod.all is transmitted to the same places that net.all is. I got a few requests last time asking what mod.all is, apparently many of you missed it the first time around. mod.all is a class of newsgroups that is treated as moderated, just like net.announce, by the 2.10 netnews software. It will be used for additional moderated newsgroups. The newsgroup mod.ber has been created, and Brian Redman is posting summaries of other newsgroups to it. The summaries are for those of us who have had to unsubscribe to interesting newsgroups because we can't keep up with the volume, yet want to know if anything interesting happens. I'm going to post another newgroup for mod.ber, since the first one seems to have gotten lost. But this still won't do any good as long as mod.all isn't being transmitted. Please fix your sys files! Mark Horton
usenet@abnjh.UUCP (usenet) (12/30/83)
Can somebody tell me what is the procedure for getting things posted to the moderated newsgroups? I have not seen *one thing* from net.announce at abnjh, ever. If there is really such little activity, what is the purpose of keeping it? If other sites have ever seen anything on net.announce, please let me know by mail. Perhaps we can set up a one-newsgroup news link so abnjh can get the good word. Mark? Are you listening? I think moderated newsgroups are a great idea, if we can get them up and running. But I would like to hear more about how they are supposed to work. For example, what keeps rifraff from posting to them? (Can we rely on people to follow etiquette here?) What *is* the accepted way of getting something posted (assuming the moderator thinks it is worth posting)? Does one send mail to the moderator, or does one post to a related 'net.' newsgroup and hope that the moderator picks it up and reposts it? Or what? Rick Thomas ihnp4!abnjh!usenet or ihnp4!abnji!rbt