Administrative statement for 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 defines what is on topic for this group. It also specifies the powers of the Moderation Board.

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-request@nan.users.panix.com.

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.

Moderator contacts

Please send any mail related to the moderation of the group to nnq-request@nan.users.panix.com.

Moderation Board

The moderation of this group is currently handled by the Big-8 Management Board (as of December 2023).

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
Kathy Morgan, from October 1997 to May 2000, and from November 2009 to December 2023