Help Wanted: Co-moderator for sci.nanotech


Description:
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Job opening for a co-moderator.
I'd like to retire (again) from moderating (this time I mean it!).

Salary:
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Nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. In fact it is even negative at times.

Other benefits and perks:
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Hmmm. Um. Not much. Well, you do get to see posts before anyone else.

Duties and requirements:
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Recognize and approve topical posts, silently dump spam, and
diplomatically reject flames, off-topic, and "crank science" posts, among
other reasons for rejection.

Must have the personality willing to approve posts they violently
disagree with but are nevertheless topical.

Must be willing to check for new posts on at least a daily basis -
ideally even more often than that.

Ideal candidates should have a basic technical understanding of Usenet
and how moderated groups work or have sufficient background in network
software that the workings of Usenet can be quickly learned on ones own
time.

Ideal candidates will have a background in the physical sciences.

Ideal candidates will have the energy and initiative to update the
material that once was on http://sci.nanotech.dyndns.org/ (check
http://www.archive.org/ for the old copies; Amos Jeffries was the
webmaster).

Co-moderators must have either a MS Windows machine they are willing to
install the Python language on or a Linux machine with Python/Tkinter
installed. The software currently being used to moderate sci.nanotech is
open source software called PyModerator that I wrote a few years back.
Co-moderators will need to download the software from here:
http://www.lugoj.com/products.html

Other stuff:
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The current co-moderators are myself and John Novak. I will remain
available during the transition period (about mumble mumble weeks). John
will presumably be sticking around to help co-moderate, though his time
is currently limited also.

I will stick around to handle the technical side of things for a while,
but I'd really like one or more people who can take over everything. I
recently moved the moderation server from my home machine to a commercial
Linux shell account and I am willing to cover its cost indefinitely, if
need be (it's only ~US$11 a month). But since the PyModerator server also
hosts four other moderated Usenet groups (misc.business.consulting,
misc.business.moderated, misc.business.marketing.moderated, and
misc.entrepreneurs.moderated) it would be doubly nice if the new co-
moderator(s) of sci.nanotech were technically savvy enough that they
could tend to the maintenance of all those hosted groups (there is
absolutely no need to co-moderate the business groups! Moderators for
those groups comes from a different candidate pool.)

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