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 .... sun......_ .---------. amdahl....\ : .-. : spl1.......==-!laidbak!guardian : `-'o : masscomp../ : O : ihnp4..._/ `---------' 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. ------ sun......_ .---------. amdahl....\ : .-. : spl1.......==-!laidbak!guardian : `-'o : masscomp../ : O : ihnp4..._/ `---------' 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! /-^-\ Thomas M. Hundt / BELLCORE Morristown NJ / hundt@bellcore.bellcore.com | | {seismo|ihnp4|ucbvax|decvax|ulysses|allegra|clyde}!bellcore!hundt /--_--\