The Board recently received an inquiry about the status of the group
from someone interested in posting to it. Given this, and that the
group has historically been used for relevant posts on a topic that is
still relevant today, the Board considers that there may be merit in
opening the group to submissions again.
As an alternative, the group could be removed with the expectation that posters wishing to discuss technical news administration would instead
use the existing unmoderated group news.admin.misc.
Are you really so desperate for something to do as to consider trying to revive a moderated newsgroup for a topic which is covered by another newsgroup and is of interest to a vanishingly small number of people?
Apart from automated posts from the moderator, the group's most recent activity seems to be in 2012, when it had two posts. The group had
sporadic bursts of activity (much of it cross-posted) in 2010, 2009,
and 2008, and seems to have been used somewhat more regularly before
2007.
Are you really so desperate for something to do as to consider trying
to revive a moderated newsgroup for a topic which is covered by
another newsgroup and is of interest to a vanishingly small number of
people?
I personally would appreciate a forum for talking about Usenet software
where peering decisions, spam, and network abuse are rejected by
moderation so that the discussion was only about the technical issues of software implementation.
I even go one step further, I volunteer as a moderator (especially if
there is at least one other person alongside me, Russ do you want to
propose yourself?).
OK, let me summarize. No activity at all for 12 years (2012). Not
regularly used for 17 years (20007). ONE person wants to post to it.
There is another group, news.software.nntp, which is available to cover
the topic.
Are you really so desperate for something to do as to consider trying to revive a moderated newsgroup for a topic which is covered by another newsgroup and is of interest to a vanishingly small number of people?
Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> writes:
Are you really so desperate for something to do as to consider trying to
revive a moderated newsgroup for a topic which is covered by another
newsgroup and is of interest to a vanishingly small number of people?
I personally would appreciate a forum for talking about Usenet software
where peering decisions, spam, and network abuse are rejected by
moderation so that the discussion was only about the technical issues of software implementation.
This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
the moderated newsgroup news.admin.technical is not functioning. This investigation will set out the reasons for non-function, and may
result in the removal of the group or the selection and installation
of a new moderator.
Russ Allbery wrote:
Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> writes:
Are you really so desperate for something to do as to consider trying to >> revive a moderated newsgroup for a topic which is covered by another
newsgroup and is of interest to a vanishingly small number of people?
I personally would appreciate a forum for talking about Usenet software where peering decisions, spam, and network abuse are rejected by
moderation so that the discussion was only about the technical issues of software implementation.
OK, I stand corrected, but in my defense I now realize that this is a
special case. This newsgroup will/would be used by the very few people
who are specifically interested in Usenet for Usenet's sake. In the
general case, trying to revive a moderated newsgroup that has been dead
for years is just silly.
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