ruck@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John Ruckstuhl) (06/21/91)
There are system administrators who read comp.archives to see announcements of archives of PD or freely-redistributable SW. For quite some time, these announcements have been largely the work of Ed Vielmetti, who clips out references to archives from articles posted in *many* various newsgroups, verifies that the archives do exist, and reposts the clippings with an informative Subject-line. Apparently, he realizes that he cannot continue (without compensation) to spend the time necessary to do this job as well as he has been. I posted: > In article <RYAN.91Jun19141831@ra.cs.umb.edu> ryan@ra.cs.umb.edu writes: > > we should be discussing ways which we could distribute the work load > > as widely as possible so that noone person is overly burdened. For > > example, whenever we find ourselves posting the location and/or > > availability of an item of information or software, it would be nice > > if there was a single newsgroup with an agreed upon article format > > which one could post that info to. It would be bad manners to carry > > on discussion in the designated newsgroup. That's just one idea. > > Maybe it will work, maybe not, but I think it is a better idea than > > having one person or one company sifting through megabytes of crap to > > find a few gems. > I prefer a cooperation between N assistant-moderators, who > lurk/contribute across the span of newsgroups. It would be the > responsibility of these persons to clip articles which point to > archives, and mail them (including original Message-ID) to the > master-moderator. > > The master-moderator would post the clippings, taking care not to post > duplicates. Master-moderator could be automatic. > > I volunteer, effective immediately, to forward clippings from > comp.sys.3b1 > comp.sources.3b1 > to the current moderator of comp.archives. I accept the responsibility > of finding a replacement if I decide to no longer read these newsgroups. > > (I will cease this assistance if (i) someone points out how foolishly I > have overlooked something, or (ii) emv asks me to quit polluting his > mailbox) emv (Ed Vielmetti) accepted my assistance, and noted my duty to: > collect some more information on it, like the exact location, any > categories or key words you'd want to add, and a sense of whether you > expect this information to be long-lived (permanent archival value, like > the first announcement of a new piece of software) or short-lived > (system down for a few days). I'd also want to experiment in I have lurked in this newsgroup for a few years, usually asking rather than answering. Perhaps this will begin to repay my debts. I do realize that dave@galaxia.newport.ri.us would probably be a much more appropriate assistant-moderator, as only he knows when he will place comp.sources.3b1 v01i018 through v01i032 on osu-cis. Whoops! It looks like some (all?) of these *are* on osu-cis, but in places other than /pub/comp.sources.3b1. Anyway, will gladly be replaced by dave at any time, but for now I'm doing this. Best Regards, ruck. -- John R Ruckstuhl, Jr ruck@alpha.ee.ufl.edu Dept of Electrical Engineering ruck@cis.ufl.edu, uflorida!ruck University of Florida