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- Submitted-by: jsq@tic.com (John S. Quarterman)
-
- The first article in the newsgroup comp.std.unix (then known as mod.std.unix)
- was posted 25 June 1985. Members of the IEEE P1003 standards committee
- (there was only one such committee back then) had requested that the new
- newsgroup be moderated to avoid the noise level seen on other newsgroups.
- To date there has been only one moderator, me. However, I would like to
- thank all those who have served from time to time as guest moderators,
- particularly John B. Chambers and Fletcher Mattox.
-
- As noted in previous postings, I have decided to retire as moderator.
- Subsequent to my posting of 31 January 1991 calling for volunteers to
- be moderator, six people came forward by the deadline of 15 February
- (and a couple of others said they would volunteer if nobody else
- did). The last to definitely volunteer by the deadline was Chuck
- Karish, who, by the rules I had stated, then proceeded to determine
- which of the volunteers was to become moderator. He chose to do this
- by discussions among the volunteers for the position.
-
- I have been informed by both Chuck and by Sean Eric Fagan that Sean was
- chosen by the withdrawals from candidacy of all the other volunteers.
- Chuck announced this result in his posting to the newsgroup of 26 February.
- He also announced
-
- If I don't hear anything within a week of the time I see this
- posting come back from John, I'll send an announcement to
- news.announce.newgroups that the reins have been shifted.
-
- While I have deliberately given no advice as to who should be moderator
- or how the new moderator should run the newsgroup, and I deliberately
- did not participate in the decision process by which Sean was chosen
- from among the six candidates, I would nonetheless like to assert that
- the procedure outlined above was as I had requested.
-
- I have seen no objections to Sean Eric Fagan being the new moderator of
- comp.std.unix. Unless I see some or Chuck Karish <karish@mindcraft.com>
- informs me that he has seen some, I will post the final article in
- comp.std.unix Volume 22 before midnight CST Wednesday 6 March 1991.
- Sean Eric Fagan will take over Thursday as moderator of comp.std.unix.
- He is already in the aliases std-unix@uunet.uu.net (postings) and
- std-unix-request@uunet.uu.net (comments), and has apparently decided to
- keep those aliases, so there should be no lost submissions.
-
- The outgoing moderator hopes the new moderator has a successful newsgroup.
-
- John S. Quarterman
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- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 136
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