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Contact Us Post Here to Contact Site Administrators and Moderators about moderators.. Post 94855 by cbkihong on Wednesday 4th of January 2006 10:53:55 AM

01-04-2006

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Only the administrators (now Neo and Perderabo) here have the authority to raise a user to moderator level. They should know why they are promoting a member to moderator level. Although I can say that usually we moderators have the chance to discuss potential moderator candidates before they are elected in a private forum (only moderators see that).

No, the moderators here are not paid staff. We work on a voluntary basis and were regular members like you before we became moderators.

As you may appreciate, Unix is itself very diverse, comprising domain knowledge in many areas, so it is natural to think that different moderators here are proficient in different areas of Unix at different positions. Together the moderation team here has expertise in many areas that allows the community to grow and mature. It was an honour of mine to be awarded moderation privilege when I was still in university. Other moderators have other respective strengths. Every one of us was promoted for a different reason.

There's one thing in common though. I believe all members of the moderator team love this place, and would like to devote our efforts to help keep unix.com a nice place for exchange of knowledge particularly to Unix. The policing duties of moderators serve to ensure that the forum will go as smoothly as possible for the community.

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moderators

MODERATORS(5)							File Formats Manual						     MODERATORS(5)

NAME

       moderators - mail addresses for moderated Usenet newsgroups

DESCRIPTION

       The  GetModeratorAddress(3)  routine  reads  the file /etc/news/moderators to determine how to reach the moderator of a newsgroup.  This is
       used by inews(1) when an unapproved local posting is made to a moderated newsgroup.

       The file is read until a match is found.  Blank lines and lines starting with a number sign (``#'') are ignored.  All  other  lines  should
       consist of two fields separated by a colon.

       The  first  field  is  a  wildmat(3)-style pattern.  If it matches the name of the newsgroup, then the second field is taken to be a format
       string for sprintf(3).  This string should have at most one %s parameter, which will be given  the  name  of  the  newsgroup  with  periods
       transliterated to dashes.

       Here is a sample file:
	      foo.important:announce-request@foo.com
	      foo.*:%s@mailer.foo.com
	      gnu.*:%s@prep.ai.mit.edu
	      *:%s@uunet.uu.net
       Using the above file, postings to the moderated newsgroup in the left column will be sent to the address shown in the right column:
	      foo.important	  announce-request@foo.com
	      foo.x.announce	  foo-x-announce@mailer.foo.com
	      gnu.emacs.sources   gnu-emacs-sources@prep.ai.mit.edu
	      comp.sources.unix   comp-sources-unix@uunet.uu.net

HISTORY

       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.15, dated 1996/09/06.

SEE ALSO

       inews(1), inn.conf(5), libinn(3), wildmat(3).

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