woods@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) (06/05/89)
Apologies to all: This group is multiply-moderated, as I'm sure everyone knows (even I do not know which moderator will get this posting). It works by having all postings mailed to an alias here at ncar.ucar.edu, which is a program that reads a file of moderator addresses and mails randomly to one of them. I was debugging this program last Friday before I sent out the newgroup message creating this group. Unintentionally, the debugging switches were left turned on over the weekend, so that any postings that came in via the normal USENET posting software were probably not sent on to a moderator. It should be functioning normally as of now, but some postings probably went down the black hole over the weekend. I apologize for the inconvenience. I presume the moderators are planning on letting posters know when a posting has been rejected; if that is so, and you posted something over the weekend and have not either seen your posting or gotten a reply from one of the moderators, you should repost it. Again, sorry for the screw-up. This group serves as more than a discussion of feminism; it is also a USENET experiment in multiple moderators. I am of the opinion that having more than one moderator may solve some of the major problems of moderated groups on USENET (which are moderators disappearing temporarily due to vacations, and moderators becoming overworked, both of which result in delays in getting postings out). It will be very interesting to see how that aspect of this new group works. --Greg (woods@ncar.ucar.edu)