roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (09/20/88)
A few weeks ago, I ran a little poll, asking who people thought the best newsgroup moderators were. At the time, I pointed out that moderators do a lot of work and get very little recognition for their efforts, except when they do something wrong, in which case they get all the recognition they can deal with! Possibly because I didn't post the poll to the right newsgroups, it didn't elicit as big a response as I thought it would. Here's a list of the people who responded: cmcl2!ames!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!wesommer Bill Wisner <cmcl2!ames!killer.dallas.tx.us!wisner> cmcl2!rutgers!astro.as.utexas.edu!werner (Werner Uhrig) uunet!n3dmc!johnl (John Limpert) Ritchey Ruff <uunet!mist.cs.orst.edu!ruffwork> sun!ssbn.WLK.COM!bill (Bill Kennedy) uunet!linc.cis.upenn.edu!brant (Brant Cheikes) Jean Marie Diaz <cmcl2!ames!hplabs!jdiaz@oracle> cmcl2!srs!matt uunet!watmath!looking!brad (Brad Templeton) Mark Brader <uunet!sq.sq.com!msb> cmcl2!rutgers!sm.unisys.com!eggert (Paul Eggert) cmcl2!rutgers!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mike (Mike Trogni) cmcl2!ames!elroy!csvax.caltech.edu!lim (Kian-Tat Lim) uunet!mcmi!denny (Dennis Page) sun!munnari!basser.cs.su.oz.au!john uunet!ateng!chip (Chip Salzenberg) uunet!pipe.gatech.edu!glenns (Glenn R. Stone) uunet!jetson.UPMA.MD.US!john (John Owens) cmcl2!rutgers!ucbvax.berkeley.edu!pixar!brighton (Bill Carson) cmcl2!rutgers!astro.as.utexas.edu!bigtex!juniper!sooner!dewey uunet!CS.CMU.EDU!Daryl.Clevenger cmcl2!ames!elroy!cognos!geovision!graham (Graham Ashby) What I did with the votes was to take a first place vote and count it as 3 points, a second place vote as 2 points, and a third place vote as 1 point. I simply added up all the points and sorted the results. Note, many people tried to make life hard on me by getting names wrong or misspelled, or getting the newsgroup names wrong. I tried my best to fix obvious errors when I caught them. The far and away winner (and my personal choice too) was Peter Neumann of comp.risks. Not only did he amass the most votes, but there were many glowing comments about his efficiency and impartiality (and several complaints about his puns). 49 Peter Neumann comp.risks 15 Rich Salz comp.sources.unix 11 Brad Templeton rec.humor.funny 8 William LeFebvre comp.sys.sun 4 Trish Roberts comp.society.women 3 Chuq von Rospach rec.mag.otherrealms 3 Andrew Tannebaum comp.os.minix 2 Jeff Shulman comp.binaries.mac (really should be Roger Long) 2 J. Storrs Hall sci.nanotech 2 Brian Reid alt.gourmand 2 Brandon Allberry comp.os.misc 1 Evelyn C. Leeper rec.arts.movies.reviews 1 Chuq Von Rospach comp.text.desktop 1 Brandon Albery comp.sources.misc Please don't send me any more votes; I don't want to see them any more. Perhaps next year, I'll run this again, giving it a wider audience to increase participation. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"