From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg "Life..." Berigan)
Subject: 3rd RFD: comp.binaries.apple2 moderated
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Ursa Minor Beta, 402-476-8047 @ 2400
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:50:52 GMT

This is the 3rd Request For Discussion on the moderation of the existing
newsgroup comp.binaries.apple2, which will go to a vote on Wednesday,
July 29, 1992.  Voting information will be contained in the CFV.

   Moderator: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Co-Moderator: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg "Life..." Berigan)
(NEW) Backup: johnp@silver.lcs.mit.edu (John Palaima)
(NEW) Backup: stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey)

Moderators will be added/removed as needed/necessary to ensure the group
continues to function rapidly and according to its charter.

Goals of Moderation (charter):

   o    Prevent corrupted binaries from being posted.  Corrupted
        articles would only occur in transit.  The moderator would have
        an uncorrupted copy, so users on sites where articles were
        corrupted in transit could request a good copy directly from the
        moderator.
   o    Insure that archives are split at their FiLeStArTfIlEsTaRt
        boundaries, in parts that will not be truncated in transit
        through old links (3 BinSCII parts per post).
   o    Prevent commercial software from being posted.  When in doubt,
        the author would be contacted.
   o    Software scanned for known viruses, to keep an unknowing user
        from accidentally spreading it, and to inform him so he can
        take action, using VirusMD program donated by Morgan Davis.
   o    Articles will have unique, sequential article-ID's, to better
        facilitate the detection of forgeries, and use the References:
        header to help threading newsreaders like trn to group parts
        together.
   o    Ensure that binaries posted will have a reasonable description
        as far as machine type, OS needed, other software needed,
        peripherals, etc.  This would include both descriptive subjects
        and descriptions in the message body.
   o    Make subjects friendlier to subject-grouping newsreaders by
        moving "(part n of m)" information into the message body; The
        subject would contain "(m parts)" instead.  This does not hamper
        the decoding of archives, as BinSCII files can be decoded in any
        order.  This helps the function of newsreaders like "nn" and
        hampers no others.
   o    Ensure that all parts of a binary are posted together, to
        prevent early parts from expiring before later parts arrive.
   o    Maintenance of a canonical archive of comp.binaries.apple2 posts
        in standard usenet format, probably on wuarchive.wustl.edu and
        UUNET.
   o    Provide sure hooks into APPLE2-L and ensure that submissions
        from that source follow these guidelines (hi Grant!)
   o    Prevent naive users from incorrectly posting discussion
        material to comp.binaries; kindly forwards their post to
        comp.sys.apple2, without causing a pointless flame war.  This
        happens far too often to be tolerable.
   o    Prevent the repeat posting of software that appeared within 6
        months.  This does not apply to updated versions of the
        software.
   o    The posting of archives containing documentation for programs
        posted to comp.binaries.apple2 is permitted.
   o    If a posting has not been checked by a moderator within 5 DAYS
        of receipt, the posting will be AUTOMATICALLY APPROVED.

   LEGAL DISCLAIMER:

   Neither the moderator nor his assistants should be held responsible in
   any way if a virus or commercial program slips through.  The moderator
   and assistants will expend effort to try to ensure this doesn't happen,
   but no guarantees are expressed nor implied that that these efforts will
   be 100% effective.  The moderator and assistants reserve the right to
   cancel any posting in comp.binaries.apple2 that is deemed inappropriate.

-- gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
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