User:Tskirvin

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.

FAQs
Tim has authored or co-authored the following FAQs.

Specific Newsgroups

 * news.ks.uiuc.edu -- a free Usenet news server for UIUC users
 * news.admin.net-abuse.policy FAQ
 * news.admin.net-abuse.sightings FAQ
 * humanities.philosophy.objectivism Administration FAQ
 * There Is No Need... the uiuc.general FAQ
 * uiuc.*/cmi.* classifieds FAQ

General Usenet

 * Formal Proposal - Big-8 Newsgroup Creation Council (DRAFT)
 * Cancel Messages FAQ
 * How To Post About Nazis And Get Away With It: Godwin's Law FAQ (see also Godwin's Law)
 * Spam Thresholds FAQ
 * free.* FAQ
 * The Mod Manifesto

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

Other Usenet Projects

 * The Killfile Dungeon - a list of people that Tim has killfiled.
 * Usenet-related Software Projects
 * Usenet @ UIUC - an organization that runs the UIUC campus news server
 * Usenet Volunteer Moderators

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.