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  • Re: still moderated ?

    From Robert Prins@21:1/5 to John on Thu Sep 5 20:42:43 2024
    XPost: alt.lang.asm

    On 2024-09-03 16:30, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:35:21 +0000
    Robert Prins <robert@prino.org> wrote:

    On 2024-08-27 21:22, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
    On 27.08.2024 20:00, wolfgang kern wrote:
    On 16/08/2024 13:09, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    ...
    yeah, CLAX is dead again.
    whenever I find it (must be on any outsourced HD)
    I'll try to reach Frank on his old email.

    found it, it was in my brain :)
    let's see if Frank can reply.

    It's not looking likely.

    I just read the sad message, Frank went further in May 18.

    https://www.brewittfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Frank-B-Kotler?obId=31619052 >>
    That's sad! Someone needs to get in touch with the Big-8 board, and we need a
    new moderator ASAP.

    True.

    But there's so little asm related traffic these days; I'm posting my asm program (debug dumps) to:

    news:alt.lang.asm

    and

    news:comp.os.msdos.programmer

    these days and there's not a lot happening there either.

    I send an email to the Big-8 management board, here's the reply:

    <quote>
    Big-8 Management Board

    17:07 (3 hours ago)

    to me
    On 03/09/2024 18:42, Robert Prins wrote:
    Hi,

    See the message in alt.lang.asm:

    <quote>
    [snip] https://www.brewittfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Frank-B-Kotler?obId=31619052

    </quote>

    Can you do something to enable the formal search for a new moderator?

    Oh dear, that is terribly sad news.

    Was Mr. Kotler the sole moderator for comp.lang.asm.x86? I see that the moderation mailbox for the newsgroup is <clax86-submit@tmsw.no>,
    presumably run by Terje Mathison who was also a contributor to the
    group, but I'm not sure if he was also involved in moderation duties or
    just hosted the mailbox for it.

    Yes, we can certainly put out a call for a new moderator. In these circumstances, this would mainly be a matter of finding one or more
    volunteers who are willing to take on the work of regularly monitoring
    the moderation mailbox and running some moderation software that sends
    the approved messages to a news server.

    Thank you for getting in touch and bringing this to our attention, and hopefully we can find a way to get the group back into use promptly.

    Kind regards,

    Rayner Lucas
    </quote>

    OK, so we need a volunteer, I'm reluctantly willing to take up that role, provided that

    1) I'm not the only one,

    and that

    2) it can be done as automatically as possible on W7 and/or Android and/or a, I'll fork out the money for it, Raspberry Pi,

    because I also have other interests, last year I spent rather a lot of time on the road, with just a smartphone to keep me in the loop.

    Robert
    --
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    robert(a)prino(d)org
    The hitchhiking grandfather @ https://prino.neocities.org/
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  • From Phil Carmody@21:1/5 to Robert Prins on Thu Oct 3 01:17:28 2024
    XPost: alt.lang.asm

    Robert Prins <robert@prino.org> writes:
    On 2024-09-03 16:30, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:35:21 +0000
    Robert Prins <robert@prino.org> wrote:

    On 2024-08-27 21:22, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
    On 27.08.2024 20:00, wolfgang kern wrote:
    I just read the sad message, Frank went further in May 18.

    https://www.brewittfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Frank-B-Kotler?obId=31619052

    That is sad news. His contributions were always welcome.

    "In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to the ACLU."
    Nice idea. I think I'll treat my g/f to one of these:
    https://shop.aclu.org/dissent-is-patriotic-tee-black/

    That's sad! Someone needs to get in touch with the Big-8 board, and we need a
    new moderator ASAP.

    OK, so we need a volunteer, I'm reluctantly willing to take up that
    role, provided that

    1) I'm not the only one,

    and that

    2) it can be done as automatically as possible on W7 and/or Android
    and/or a, I'll fork out the money for it, Raspberry Pi,

    because I also have other interests, last year I spent rather a lot of
    time on the road, with just a smartphone to keep me in the loop.

    If you look back into the history, you'll see I was one of the
    volunteers to when moderation was first proposed. IIRC, there were
    7 or 8 of us, the others' identities have faded into mist now - all
    I remember was that Scott Nudds wasn't one of them.

    As I was kinda responsible for putting it into that state, I guess I
    should also volunteer to maintain it, though with the same reluctance
    and provisos as you. "No new software" would be my #1 restriction. My
    RasPi is very old, has a very old distro, so anything too fancy might be
    an issue. Does anyone know the actual details of what's needed?

    Phil
    --
    We are no longer hunters and nomads. No longer awed and frightened, as we have gained some understanding of the world in which we live. As such, we can cast aside childish remnants from the dawn of our civilization.
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  • From wolfgang kern@21:1/5 to Phil Carmody on Fri Oct 4 08:26:44 2024
    XPost: alt.lang.asm

    On 03/10/2024 00:17, Phil Carmody wrote:
    ...
    That is sad news. His contributions were always welcome.

    Yeah, I really miss Beth, Chuck, Nate and now Frank too.
    ...
    If you look back into the history, you'll see I was one of the
    volunteers to when moderation was first proposed. IIRC, there were
    7 or 8 of us, the others' identities have faded into mist now - all
    I remember was that Scott Nudds wasn't one of them.

    Yep let's avoid trolls and nuts.

    As I was kinda responsible for putting it into that state, I guess I
    should also volunteer to maintain it, though with the same reluctance
    and provisos as you. "No new software" would be my #1 restriction. My
    RasPi is very old, has a very old distro, so anything too fancy might be
    an issue. Does anyone know the actual details of what's needed?

    I'd say just go for it...
    look what recent ASM questions were about (anyway hard to find any).
    most questions were about tools, compiler issues and rare instructions.
    me think that x86-64 isn't dead yet, so a collection of links could
    provide a good base for supporting newbies :)
    __
    wolfgang

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