Neuron Digest Volume 03 Number 11

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NEURON Digest	Mon Jun 13 09:33:12 CDT 1988.   Volume 3 / Issue 11 
Today's Topics: 

 Moderation of the NEURON Digest 

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Date: 13 JUNE 1988, 9:30am 
From: gately%ti.csl.com@cs.net.relay 
Subject: Moderation of the NEURON Digest 

To all NEURON subscribers: 

As you may have noticed, my moderation of the NEURON digest 
has been quite negligent.  My activities at both work and 
home have increased dramatically in the past few months. 
In the interest of keeping this Digest alive and well, I  
think that it is best if someone with a little more time 
(and perhaps more UNIX and ARPANET experience) take over the 
moderator position. 

The network was originally set up in October of 1986 and 
currently has a distribution of about 1000 addresses.  Of  
course many addresses are re-distribution sites, so I can 
only take a guess at the actual membership (Ken Laws tried to 
do this with the AIList Digest and did not do too well). 

The method I have been using is to simply copy the incoming 
mail into one of seven files; NEWS, QUERIES, REPLIES, CALL for 
papers, CONFerences, BIBLIOgraphical stuff, and RANDOM.  I  
then use a simple UNIX script to join the files, remove the  
extraneous header information, and add new header information. 

For me this all took place over a 2400 baud connection to a  
remote UNIX machine.  Next I would go into the file and  
doctor it up; fixing all the little things like messages 
without Subject fields or removing random form feeds from 
messages.  Finally, I use another script to send the message 
out to the network. 

I am sure that more talented UNIX programers can put together 
better scripts.  I am also sure that somewhere on this planet 
is a UNIX computer that has a faster response time than the one 
I use. 

The only hard problem to overcome in changing moderators will 
be to convert some ofthe addresses from my CSNET format to 
your (hopefully) INTERNet format; but this should be vy 
straightforward. 

Any takers?  Send a message to me at: 
gatelyu%resbld.csl.ti.com@relay.cs.net 

Regards, 
Michael Gately 

p.s.  I will try to send out another NEURON Digest (with 
some real information in it) later this week. 

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