User:Tskirvin

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Tim Skirvin is a sysadmin at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is best known for his contributions to Usenet, specifically his FAQs and moderated newsgroups, and for his help at bringing South Park to television. He is also known as the monarch of the hacker network, being officially named chair to the Big-8 Newsgroup Creation Council.

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[edit] FAQs

Tim has authored or co-authored the following FAQs.

[edit] Specific Newsgroups

[edit] General Usenet

[edit] Moderated Newsgroups

Tim moderates or co-moderates the following Usenet newsgroups.

  • humanities.philospophy.objectivism
  • news.admin.net-abuse.sightings
  • news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins - co-moderator
  • news.admin.net-abuse.policy
  • rec.games.mecha - technical moderator
  • rec.games.frp.moderated
  • rec.toys.transformers.moderated - technical moderator

[edit] Other Usenet Projects

[edit] The Spirit of Christmas

Tim Skirvin was one of four friends to digitize The Spirit of Christmas, a five-minute animated short about four children's adventures with Jesus and Santa Claus. He developed the Official Spirit of Christmas Distribution Site to disseminate this video over the internet. This video helped catalyze public support for the television show South Park, which was released about a year later.

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