From: Jay Denebeim (denebeim@deepthot.org)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 15:22:38 CDT
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I'm not a moderator (was from about 88-92) so I have a question about
> moderator platforms. Is it safe to assume that the majority of moderators
> use either a UNIX-like o/s or Windows? It looks like it's time to
> generate a new moderator tool, are these platforms the majority target?
*A* new moderator tool? I guess you're not aware how stuff is moderated.
There's almost as many tools as there are moderated newsgroups. Although
I'm pretty sure a good many of them use Agent which allows them to edit
the headers and then inject the news. I don't know how well this
encapsulation stuff is going to work for them. At a minimum it would be
remove the mime headers and then edit the mime cruft out of the post, then
copy and paste the headers out of the encapsulated version back into the
headers themselves, then remove the encapsulated headers. Looks to be
about a 25-50 discrete clicks/keystrokes. Tad more than the 2 or 3 that
used to be required.
Remember, most moderators are *not* technical. They can't write a
solution to their problem. They're doing it manually.
Jay
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