Newsgroups: bit.listserv.dipl-l
Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:09:39 EST
Reply-To:     Nick Fitzpatrick <nick@SUNBURN.UWATERLOO.CA>
From:         Nick Fitzpatrick <nick@SUNBURN.UWATERLOO.CA>
Subject:      NEW JUDGE

A new judge has been created, the address is  (judge@morrolan.eff.org).  It
is in Cambridge Massachussets.

Here are some article from rec.games.diplomacy, on the creation, and
describing the limits on games (eg.  No unmoderated games!)

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Article: 181 of rec.games.diplomacy
From: kovar@world.std.com (David C Kovar)
Subject: New judge running with thanks to the EFF
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:25:05 GMT

		There's a new judge in town ....

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation has kindly provided a machine
for running a new North American judge. The judge is now open for
business, with the following condition:

	Only moderated games will be allowed.

  Ken, and the U Washington judge, burned out under the load and
I would like to spare myself and this judge the same fate. I am
considering other conditions, but I'd prefer to wait and see how
things go and let the players control themselves rather than
imposing control from above. (Ie, I don't really want to go
hack a lot of code at the moment and I think you all are pretty
ok people and basically trustworthy.)

  I would like to keep the number of games below ten until after
Christmas to give us a chance to shake things out. Anyone
who decides to moderate a game is asked to respect this limit.
After Christmas, assuming everything goes well, we can raise
the limit.

  I am not going to copy any information over from the Washington
judge, so you must re-register if you want to use this judge.

  I am currently taking requests for the moderator of the first
game on the new judge. I would like the game to be named "lowe"
and the second to be named "eff". After that, it is in your hands.
Please do not create any games until you check with me. Thanks!

  Now, the important part:

	judge@morrolan.eff.org		- Judge's address
	judge-request@morrolan.eff.org
		and			- Admin addresses
	jdr@morrolan.eff.org

  Please do *not* send me mail at this account (kovar@world.std.com).
All Diplomacy related mail should go to judge-request@morrolan.eff.org.
Thanks.

  Enjoy!

-David Kovar



Article: 183 of rec.games.diplomacy
From: randall-joshua@yale.edu (Joshua Randall)
Subject: Re: New judge running with thanks to the EFF
Date: 20 Nov 1992 19:14:36 -0500

In article <By1A5u.2t0@world.std.com> kovar@world.std.com (David C Kovar)
 writes:
>		There's a new judge in town ....

[much deleted for sake of brevity]

>  I am currently taking requests for the moderator of the first
>game on the new judge. I would like the game to be named "lowe"
>and the second to be named "eff". After that, it is in your hands.

A fitting tribute, says I.

People, this is truly amazing (in the good sense!!!).  Less than a week
after the "death of the Judge", here is a new one.  A big thanks to David
and to the EFF ("Chamipions of Freedom" <grin>).

Let the games begin....  (well, heed the 10 game max, of course)

--
Joshua E. Randall                       randall-joshua@yale.edu


Article: 190 of rec.games.diplomacy
From: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper)
Subject: Re: New Judge?
Date: 21 Nov 1992 20:04:35 +0800

hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:

>BTW, I should warn folks who might be thinking of using the South African
>judge that the network connection to South Africa is somewhat flakey.  (I
>regularly send email there.)  I heard from some network guru there that their
>link to Portland, and hence to North America is

>	"currently a single voice-grade line with a pair of v32bis modems,
>	which retrain down to 300bps from time to time, and need to be reset
>	before they climb back to 12000bps (the fastest that they get on that
>	line)."

>Maybe the Australian connection to North America is faster and more reliable
>for now.

Blecccch.  I'm a sysadmin of the site that has the Australian judge.  We
are at the end of a 38.4kbps SL/IP link, at the wrong end of a 128kbps
ISDN link, on the wrong end of a .5Mbps satellite link.

None of these things are particularly problematic for the operation of an
email server.  We had some problems recently (the VAX11/750 died^H^H^H^H
retired) and the judge is now running on a salvaged Sun3/280.  The thing
is, if the mail gets through and your box is vaguely reliable, it's good
enough to run the judge.

Peter


Article: 194 of rec.games.diplomacy
From: vincent@cc.und.ac.za (Russell Vincent)
Subject: Re: New Judge?
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 08:45:41 GMT

hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) wrote:

> BTW, I should warn folks who might be thinking of using the South African
> judge that the network connection to South Africa is somewhat flakey.  (I
> regularly send email there.)  I heard from some network guru there that their
> link to Portland, and hence to North America is

Actually, that has just changed!  This w/e our new 64K link, to somewhere
more central, went in - what a difference!!   :-)

The only problem being that I cannot have too many (>15-20) games running at
once because the machine is also used for other stuff. (I might even rethink
those figures). Although I will definately do my best to keep this judge
going. (Being one of the machine administrators helps a lot!)

Please feel free to start new games - I only have 3 running at the moment -
one just finishing.

 -Russell

--
Russell Vincent,  Computer Services, Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
Vincent@cc.und.ac.za
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