[news.groups] New moderator for comp.binaries.ibm.pc

guardian@laidbak.UUCP (Harry Skelton) (11/23/87)

    [ deep breath .....]

    VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

    I hereby open the votes for the new moderator of the comp.binaries.ibm.pc
    group.  

    I made postings in the past regarding the moderation of this group and have
    offered my assistance as the moderator.  I now make it official.

    1) I have about 20 megs of progs and have access to well over 200 meg of
       P.D. code for the IBM-PC/MS-DOS machines.  

    2) I verify all the software before I post it as not to cause problems 
       with copyrights and to mask for problems or bugs.  If the software 
       does not have clear permission to be a public domain software 
       (other than shareware and the like) then it shall not be posted.
       The author of the software will be contacted prior to posting in
       order to verify the author and to notify the author of the intent
       to post to usenet.  Software recieved via e-mail, written by the
       sender, will be posted with little or no hastle but will be verified
       none the less.

    3) All letters recieved will be edited and posted in a news letter 
       to the group.  This will cut down on a multitude of requests for
       software or software related questions.
    
    4) Efforts will be made to find software available for postings and all
       items found will be made part of the news letter.  BBS listings will
       be part of the postings from time to time as to support the sites 
       from which the software comes from and to educate those who do not 
       have access to a local BBS. A full listing of available software will
       also be posted from time to time.
    
    5) ARCing may or may not be performed on certain copies of the software
       in order to allow users to deal with the data transfer as they wish.
       From time to time, I will post a version of ARC suitable for the net
       purposes.

    6) If the software requires a certain version of a utility in order to 
       operate, then I will post the utility as well else the software will
       not be posted. ( such is the case of 'snatched' disks).


    I have several votes all ready but I have not heard from various parts
    of the net and I do not wish to offend anyone by making myself moderator
    by default.

    Any one wishing to cast votes, please do so by sending your votes and
    comments to ....

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    Those of you who are close enough, I can e-mail code over short hops or
    direct you to a local system for software support.

    PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES - I will post the results by Dec 1st.  If none
    are against my assistance as moderator, I make a public request to have
    my name moved into the comp.binaries.ibm.pc position as moderator.

    Thanks and Happy coding.

    P.S. those of you who wish for certain code NOW, can e-mail your request
    or post it to comp.binaries.ibm.pc in the form of:

    REQUEST: softwarename
    VERSION: version
    COMMENT: comment here
    SITE: e-mail path to site from one of the connections listed above.
    ARC: y or n field
    EMAIL: y or n field ( if you prefer e-mailed code )
    MACHINE: machine name you are on
    MPHONE: phone number of modem for machine
    MACCESS: UUCP script needed to access your machine
    MCHECK: y or n field - call the MPHONE number for more information.

    I will make a deamon to handle the auto requests and will e-mail you 
    something as to the status of the request.

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		   The Far Seek ... Tales from the bad sector. 
"Harry said he was going to stay late to fix a program called Jack or something
    but all we found, officer, was some notes with 'Elizibeth' scrawled all
	over them, an axe, and some polorids of a troll or something."

hundt@wind.UUCP (11/25/87)

In article <1260@laidbak.UUCP> guardian@laidbak.UUCP (Harry Skelton(E)) writes:
>    I made postings in the past regarding the moderation of this group and have
>    offered my assistance as the moderator.  I now make it official.

        [lists lots of things a devoted moderator would do]
>
>    of the net and I do not wish to offend anyone by making myself moderator
>    by default.

Hey, I for one appreciate a good moderator (and I'm not trying to be funny here)

GO FOR IT!


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