mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (01/26/84)
The newsgroup mod.ber is now working (for most of the net) and is providing a service I am really impressed by. It contains summaries of what happened in certain newsgroups. I'm sure many of you used to read (say) net.misc, but turned it off because you didn't have time to plow through all that stuff. But now that you've turned it off, things probably come up every so often that you would find interesting if you knew about them. Each week, a single article is posted to mod.ber for each of net.flame, net.cooks, net.books, and probably a few other newsgroups. This article briefly summarizes what the discussion in that newsgroup was about. You can subscribe to mod.ber, unsubscribe to net.flame, and if something intesting comes up, you can resubcribe to net.flame as long as it lasts. The problem is that we have more high volume newsgroups than we have volunteers to produce summaries. I think we need summaries of most of the high volume newsgroups, such as net.micro, net.misc, net.followup, net.unix-wizards, and possibly a few more. If you are interested in helping out the net by summarizing a big newsgroup you read regularly, please contact Brian Redman at allegra!gummo!ber. Mark