Re: ADMIN: whompin' big outage in November

On Oct 20, 1:09=A0pm, d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (DK) wrote:
In article <gdh5rs$1pa...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, evolut...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=
...org wrote:
Folkadeedliedoo:

My entire family unit and I -- well, not the dog -- will be
spending about 17 days in Costa Rica in November. I am aware
that there is internet access, often quite good internet access,
in dear ol' CR, but if you think I'm taking a laptop along you
are nutsy-kookoo.

The upshot: there'll be no s.b.e. for about 11/11 to about 11/28.

Unless we can get a substitute moderator. Frankly, I've dinged
about one creationist article in the last several months, and
tens of thousands of general spam. I bet if we just threw DIG's
spam filter in front of the newsgroup, it would do as good a job
as yours truly.

Without the caring hugs, of course, but just as good a job.

So, we have a decision to make: are we going to let the group
go on hiatus for a few weeks? Do we want to try to dragoon a
substitute moderator (I can run them through the process, of
course), or do we want to robomod for a few weeks?

Discuss amongst ourselves; please DO leave the "ADMIN" part
in any followups, since I winnow by hand through the about
200 or so posts per day, about 99% of which are spam.

Just plug the robomod and leave it there in front of you when
you return. See if you really matter :-) Filters evolved quite
dramatically in the past 10 years.

Ditto. Try the robot - something interesting might happen. It's only 2
1/2 weeks.

--
Joe

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