This article is maintained by members of the news.newusers.questions Moderation Board.

Administrative statement for the newsgroup news.newusers.questions

Introduction

The newsgroup news.newusers.questions is a moderated group. Moderation is a brief review process intended to ensure that the group contains only on-topic messages having no harmful technical issues.

When you send a message to the group, your message will not appear in the group immediately. However, unless there is something wrong with the message, a moderator will soon approve it, placing it in the group for everyone to read. Currently, moderation is performed primarily by human moderators (rather than automatically, by software).

Please expect a delay of several hours between the time you send your message and the time your message appears on your news server.

The charter for news.newusers.questions is available on the news.newusers.questions website. The charter defines what is on topic for this group. It also specifies the powers of the Moderation Board.

The moderation platform is generously hosted by albasani.net. Thank you!

Rejections and appeals

When a moderator rejects a message, he or she tries to email a rejection notice to the sender. This notice would include the reason for the rejection. You can appeal such a rejection by sending an emailed reply to the rejection notice or by writing to nnq-board at anta.net.

If you think a moderator may have rejected your message, but you have not received a rejection notice, please make sure you have configured your newsreader with your correct email address.

Web archive

The messages that moderators have recently approved for the newsgroup are also available in an archive on the Web.

Moderator contacts

Please send any mail related to the moderation of the group to the remaining moderator kathy@tokak.us .

Moderation Board

The board that controls the moderation of this group consists of the following persons:

Backup moderator

• Kathy Morgan, since November 2009 (also from October 1997 to May 2000)

Past moderators

Head Moderator, Emeritus

• Jon Bell (jbell at presby.edu), from June 1997 to September 2007

Moderators Emeriti

• Dennis Calhoun (dcalhoun at BLomand.Net), from June 1997 to September 2007
• Denis McKeon (dmckeon at swcp.com), from June 1997 to September 2007
• Barbara Pattist (pattist at earthlink.net), from June 1997 to September 2007
• Kivi Shapiro (kivi at pobox.com), from June 1997 to September 2007
• Dave Howard, from June 1997 to May 2000
• Don Sillaway, from June 1997 to November 1999
• Ethan Bradford, from June 1997 to March 1998
• Stella Nemeth, from June 1997 to December 1997
• Kate Weizel, from June 1997 to September 1997
• Kathy Cole (kathy at scconsult.com), from October 1997 to September 2007
• Julius Kusuma, from March 1998 to May 2001
• Michael Buchenrieder, from May 2000 to September 2007
• Heinrich Schramm (heinrich at schramm.com), from May 2000 to September 2007
• Thor Kottelin, from June 1997 to some time in 2016

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