On 22 Aug 2000, at 15:00, Kent Landfield wrote:
> # At 12:00 AM -0400 08/22/00, D. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> # >Maybe what needs to happen is some type of encrypted and passworded
> # >web interface that any appointed person(s) could use.
> #
> # In any case, no matter how much you automate the process, someone has
> # to maintain the automation.
>
> I would have no problem putting up an interface on faqs.org that allowed
> author/maintainers to submit, update, and manage their faqs posting.
> Yes it would need to be passworded, etc. so that it would be private.
> I have had a good deal of email in the past from people trying to
> understand the process so they could get started.
>
> I'd hate to see news.answers die because of bad timing for moderators.
> If there is something I can do here to automate/reengineer the process
> of managing *.answers postings then I'll gladly do it. I would need
> a bit of help from the existing moderators to fully understand the
> process they use (even though I have a pretty good idea). I'd also be
> hoping that a developer or two on the list would like the access needed
> to assist. ;)
Ok, I used to maintain a FAQ and will be doing so hopefully in the near future,
and I never bothered to unsub when I stopped maintaining. I do moderate a
normal newsgroup (rec.games.frp.announce) on an ongoing basis. I hand-
moderate, but over on the moderator's mailing list, I know of at least one very
flexible moderation tool. STUMP - which in it's default form EMAILS the
submissions to a randomly selected moderator from the list of moderators for
the newsgroup. It is designed to run on Linux or other unix-like OSes.It
allows a multiple-moderator system, "pre-approved" lists, etc.
Information about it is at : http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov/stump/
Another version uses web-based clients for moderation. It's called WEBstump,
and the author, Igor Chudov has worked very hard to make it work well.
It *might* be what you are looking for. As for moderators, with the easily
defined team approach that the software uses, any handful of people on this
list willing to participate in the moderation process. As it looks now, it
does not handle the automatic posting schedule of FAQs. Since the software is
available as source, someone on this list might be able to add the FAQ
scheduling feature such that once the posting is approved by a moderator, the
FAQ can autopost as needed.
The system supports PGP signing, so there is little opportunity for someone to
hijack a FAQ.
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