Real Troll wrote:

Can you please also look into these two moderated newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++.moderated
comp.lang.c.moderated

If necessary we should have two new moderators and I recommend two guys
who are quite experienced in C and C++. They are:

Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>

Both of then are very active in " comp.lang.c " and " comp.lang.c++ "
and they can be contacted on those newsgroups.

Of course, I don't have the their authority to put their name forward
but if an election is necessary then it should be conducted by C and C++ users only. Jason, you can be the returning officer for all this.

Kind regards,

PS: I have cross posted this to the two newsgroups of relevance here.

Hi Real,

I can look into it. We can help change moderators but we need to do a few things first.

First, the people who will moderate the newsgroups will need to want to moderate them. Also, they will need to be able run the software needed to actually moderate newsgroups. If you can get Keith and James to email us at board@big-8.org saying that they are interested in moderating these groups, then we can talk about everything that's required.

Just FYI, here are the list of moderators for these groups currently:

comp.lang.c.moderated
Peter Seebach
comp.lang.c++.moderated
David Vandevoorde,
Victor Bazarov, Dom Devitto, Francis Glassborow, Howard Harkness,
James Kanze, Seungbeom Kim, Dietmar Kuehl, John Potter,
Alf Steinbach & Herb Sutter



Jason

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Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> wrote:

Real Troll wrote:

Can you please also look into these two moderated newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++.moderated
comp.lang.c.moderated

If necessary we should have two new moderators and I recommend two guys
who are quite experienced in C and C++. They are:

Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>

Both of then are very active in " comp.lang.c " and " comp.lang.c++ "
and they can be contacted on those newsgroups.

Of course, I don't have the their authority to put their name forward
but if an election is necessary then it should be conducted by C and C++ >>users only. Jason, you can be the returning officer for all this.

Kind regards,

PS: I have cross posted this to the two newsgroups of relevance here.

Hi Real,

I can look into it. We can help change moderators but we need to do a few >things first.

First, the people who will moderate the newsgroups will need to want to >moderate them. . . .

Thank you for saying that. Person A, who isn't volunteering, cannot
volunteer Person B. It doesn't work like that. Person B has to step
forward himself.

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On 04/08/2021 07:05, Jason Evans wrote:

Real Troll wrote:

Can you please also look into these two moderated newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++.moderated
comp.lang.c.moderated

If necessary we should have two new moderators and I recommend two guys
who are quite experienced in C and C++. They are:

Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>

Both of then are very active in " comp.lang.c " and " comp.lang.c++ "
and they can be contacted on those newsgroups.

Of course, I don't have the their authority to put their name forward
but if an election is necessary then it should be conducted by C and C++
users only. Jason, you can be the returning officer for all this.

Kind regards,

PS: I have cross posted this to the two newsgroups of relevance here.

Hi Real,

I can look into it. We can help change moderators but we need to do a few things first.

First, the people who will moderate the newsgroups will need to want to moderate them. Also, they will need to be able run the software needed to actually moderate newsgroups. If you can get Keith and James to email us at board@big-8.org saying that they are interested in moderating these groups, then we can talk about everything that's required.

Just FYI, here are the list of moderators for these groups currently:

comp.lang.c.moderated
Peter Seebach
comp.lang.c++.moderated
David Vandevoorde,
Victor Bazarov, Dom Devitto, Francis Glassborow, Howard Harkness,
James Kanze, Seungbeom Kim, Dietmar Kuehl, John Potter,
Alf Steinbach & Herb Sutter

Jason

Thank you Jason.


I have asked both Keith and James to send an email of intent to the
Board and let us see if we can reopen the two newsgroups.

The current newsgroups that we are using sometimes gets lots of spam and off-topic posts and we try to reason with the posters to refrain from
doing so but it often fails. Sometimes we try to report them to their
service providers or to their ISPs but this doesn't work all the time.

Thanks for now and let us see how this progresses.

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On 04/08/2021 18:54, Real Troll wrote:

On 04/08/2021 07:05, Jason Evans wrote:

Real Troll wrote:

Can you please also look into these two moderated newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++.moderated
comp.lang.c.moderated

If necessary we should have two new moderators and I recommend two guys
who are quite experienced in C and C++. They are:

Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>

Both of then are very active in " comp.lang.c " and " comp.lang.c++ "
and they can be contacted on those newsgroups.

Of course, I don't have the their authority to put their name forward
but if an election is necessary then it should be conducted by C and C++ >>> users only. Jason, you can be the returning officer for all this.

Kind regards,

PS: I have cross posted this to the two newsgroups of relevance here.

Hi Real,

I can look into it. We can help change moderators but we need to do a few
things first.

First, the people who will moderate the newsgroups will need to want to
moderate them. Also, they will need to be able run the software needed to
actually moderate newsgroups. If you can get Keith and James to email us at >> board@big-8.org saying that they are interested in moderating these groups, >> then we can talk about everything that's required.

Just FYI, here are the list of moderators for these groups currently:

comp.lang.c.moderated
Peter Seebach
comp.lang.c++.moderated
David Vandevoorde,
Victor Bazarov, Dom Devitto, Francis Glassborow, Howard Harkness,
James Kanze, Seungbeom Kim, Dietmar Kuehl, John Potter,
Alf Steinbach & Herb Sutter



Jason

Thank you Jason.

I have asked both Keith and James to send an email of intent to the
Board and let us see if we can reopen the two newsgroups.

The current newsgroups that we are using sometimes gets lots of spam and off-topic posts and we try to reason with the posters to refrain from
doing so but it often fails. Sometimes we try to report them to their
service providers or to their ISPs but this doesn't work all the time.

Thanks for now and let us see how this progresses.

You know they've probably plonked you, right?

Also: It's a bit rude to volunteer people without their knowledge.

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