sci.space.tech is under new management

This post is to let you know that sci.space.tech is now being moderated
again. Moderation of sci.space.science will soon follow.

George Herbert has graciously passed the reins on to the new moderators so
that perhaps these newsgroups can have some life again.

The moderators a

Greg Moore (mooregr (at) greenms.com)
Derek Lyons (fairwater (at) gmail.com)
Mary Shafer reunite.gondwana (at) gmail.com

Some of you may be wondering why us. The honest answer is simple: because
we undertook the work to make this happen. Derek and I discussed at length
what we thought it would take to try to bring back these newsgroups from the
dead. Among the issues we discussed was making sure we had an odd number of
moderators so we decided to look for a third. We hoped to find someone
whose integrity and experience would be above reproach. Graciously and
fortunately Mary Shafer has agreed to be that person.

We are still in the early stages of getting details worked out. In fact we
are finalizing the setup of the approval software. We want to thank Paul W.
Schleck for his unselfish help in setting up the account and getting the
software working.

As for posting guidelines, we are working on those but in general we will be
trying to use the standards outlined below.

Posts will initially be judged on content. NO posters will initially be
blacklisted. However, posters who continually post and repost rejected
material may find themselves eventually blacklisted.

For sci.space.tech, any post should have a majority of the content be of a
technical nature.
There is room for non-technical details, but if the moderators feel the post
is to far from technical we are likely to ask for a rewrite. A post that is
obviously non-technical in nature or completely off-topic will be rejected
outright.

Posts that include cites, equations and proven science and technology
references are preferred. If you want to discuss esoteric subjects such as
FTL, anti-gravity and other non-proven scientific principles, please make
sure to have recent and citable references for the topic. Pie in the sky
posts will generally be rejected.

Personal attacks generally will NOT be tolerated. Quips at others expense
or ribbing may be tolerated as long as they are not the main point of the
post and are specific to the points being addressed.

Topics that we feel have run their course will generally be closed off until
new technical information is posted. Rehashing topics over and over again
will not be permitted.


As moderators we realize that we can probably please all the people some of
the time and some of the people all the time, but will never please all the
people all of the time. So be it.

If you have issues with how we are moderating or an issue with why specific
posts were or were not approved, we will consider all reasonably written
emails to us. Part of the reason for an odd-number of moderators is so that
if necessary, we can vote on any posts that require that.

Please keep in mind the three of us are all volunteers and spending out
time, effort and to an extent money to make this happen.

Thank you

Your sci.space.tech moderation team.

Greg Moore
Derek Lyons
Mary Shafer

--
Greg Moore
Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC.

To our new moderators - Thank You!

Have been missing this group for some time.

Have been curious about the last posting to the group in aug. 2007,
which was:

'Sporge flooding of sci.space.tech will commence in a few hours.

This will render sci.space.tech useless. For an example, see
Sci.Crypt.'

What is Sporge flooding?

Also look forward to the return of sci.space.science.

Best Regards,

Doug


On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:16:40 EDT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:


This post is to let you know that sci.space.tech is now being moderated
again. Moderation of sci.space.science will soon follow.

George Herbert has graciously passed the reins on to the new moderators so
that perhaps these newsgroups can have some life again.

The moderators a

Greg Moore (mooregr (at) greenms.com)
Derek Lyons (fairwater (at) gmail.com)
Mary Shafer reunite.gondwana (at) gmail.com

Some of you may be wondering why us. The honest answer is simple: because
we undertook the work to make this happen. Derek and I discussed at length
what we thought it would take to try to bring back these newsgroups from the
dead. Among the issues we discussed was making sure we had an odd number of
moderators so we decided to look for a third. We hoped to find someone
whose integrity and experience would be above reproach. Graciously and
fortunately Mary Shafer has agreed to be that person.

We are still in the early stages of getting details worked out. In fact we
are finalizing the setup of the approval software. We want to thank Paul W.
Schleck for his unselfish help in setting up the account and getting the
software working.

As for posting guidelines, we are working on those but in general we will be
trying to use the standards outlined below.

Posts will initially be judged on content. NO posters will initially be
blacklisted. However, posters who continually post and repost rejected
material may find themselves eventually blacklisted.

For sci.space.tech, any post should have a majority of the content be of a
technical nature.
There is room for non-technical details, but if the moderators feel the post
is to far from technical we are likely to ask for a rewrite. A post that is
obviously non-technical in nature or completely off-topic will be rejected
outright.

Posts that include cites, equations and proven science and technology
references are preferred. If you want to discuss esoteric subjects such as
FTL, anti-gravity and other non-proven scientific principles, please make
sure to have recent and citable references for the topic. Pie in the sky
posts will generally be rejected.

Personal attacks generally will NOT be tolerated. Quips at others expense
or ribbing may be tolerated as long as they are not the main point of the
post and are specific to the points being addressed.

Topics that we feel have run their course will generally be closed off until
new technical information is posted. Rehashing topics over and over again
will not be permitted.


As moderators we realize that we can probably please all the people some of
the time and some of the people all the time, but will never please all the
people all of the time. So be it.

If you have issues with how we are moderating or an issue with why specific
posts were or were not approved, we will consider all reasonably written
emails to us. Part of the reason for an odd-number of moderators is so that
if necessary, we can vote on any posts that require that.

Please keep in mind the three of us are all volunteers and spending out
time, effort and to an extent money to make this happen.

Thank you

Your sci.space.tech moderation team.

Greg Moore
Derek Lyons
Mary Shafer

(Doug) writes:

What is Sporge flooding?

Sporge == SPAM + forge -- a huge volume of useless posts. The idea
some creative soul had was that they would flood various newgroups
with utter crap, to the point the newsgroups would become useless.

Unless, of course, you were subscribed through their service, in which
case you wouldn't see their crap. In other ways, a really nasty
protection racket. Unfortunately for them, the response was 'feh',
with almost all newsgroup traffic moving to various web-based forums.
Unfortunately for the rest of us usenet users, well, the same.

There are very few people for whom it seems to me a slowly turning
spit in Hell is a fitting consequence. Those slimeballs are in that
small set.

Greg, Derek and Mary.

Thank you for bringing this newsgroup back!

I understand the limitations of a moderated group and generally
tend to avoid the moderated web forums on general principles
since I've found none that don't accept some implicit (and often
not very well stated) form of censorship.

But newsgroups are unique in that they provide *both* avenues
of conversation (moderated and unmoderated) and for that reason
I make an exception for newsgroups.

I thank you for stating your moderation policy up front and I look
forward to reading the content provided herein.

The true measure of the health of a moderated group is the amount of
traffic it passes. Let's hope sci.space.tech gets another long run!

David Spain