I am sorry for this not being a kook/troll post. The wearable computer
hardware mailing list suffers from similiar noise problems as this
particular newsgroup. Perhaps their documents/attempts will be of any use.
ciao,
'gene
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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 18:43:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: "R. Paul McCarty" <mccarty at reg16.admin.rochester.edu>
To: wear-hard at haven.org
Subject: newsgroup comp.sys.wearables
Resent-Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 19:12:04 -0400
Resent-From: wear-hard at haven.org
I don't know how many messages between Gregory Pfeil and myself have been
copied to the wear-hard group, but we have been trying to get a
newsgroup started on usenet for people on this mailing list that would
prefer a newsgroup format to our discussions and to attract people
interested in discussing wearables who aren't aware of this mailing list.
This would also answer the need some people have expressed for archives of
the list.
The initial RFD (Request For Discussion) never went to vote, but
there were suggestions that the group be moderated, rather than
unmoderated. I've revised the RFD to request a moderated group and I
think if it goes to a vote we should get it added without any problems.
I've put the RFD up at:
http://reg16.admin.rochester.edu/~mccarty/comp.sys.wearables.html
Right now, Gregory and I are listed as moderators and I would like to add
some additional moderators to the request to spread out the work of
approving messages. I'm also looking at robot-moderator (proc-mail)
scripts to automatically moderate 90% of the messages so moderating the
group might entail getting a few messages a day which need to be looked at
and approved if they are relevant to the group. If you would like to be
added as a moderator, please let me know and I will add you to the RFD.
Also, if there are suggestions about changes to the RFD before I
submit this please let me know. I will post this sometime next week and
then about 2 weeks later there will be a vote.
Also, if someone would like to host the site where we can automatically
moderate the group with a script that would be fantastic, otherwise I will
have to find an account somewhere where I can set up the bot for a long
period of time.
Thanks for any feedback.
-Paul
R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator / rpmc at troi.cc.rochester.edu/ x52059
317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
Computers don't make mistakes;what they do,they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH
