Is newsgroup comp.lang.c++.moderated dead?

[Adam Badura]

According to what Google shows one the newsgroup comp.lang.c++.moderated the last post is almost a year old now (it is from 23th May 2016). (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.c++.moderated)

I wrote a post myself almost a week ago and it wasn't published so far.

Is the comp.lang.c++.moderated officially closed now? Is there any replacement for it (other than this comp.lang.c++)?

[Chris M. Thomasson]

That is terrible news.

[Ian Collins]

On 05/16/17 05:46 PM, Adam Badura wrote:
>
> Is the comp.lang.c++.moderated officially closed now? Is there any
> replacement for it (other than this comp.lang.c++)?

In as much as any Usenet group can close, yes. The moderated group has
been dead for quite a while.

--
Ian

[Alf P. Steinbach]

On 16-May-17 7:46 AM, Adam Badura wrote:
> According to what Google shows one the newsgroup
> comp.lang.c++.moderated the last post is almost a year old now (it is
> from 23th May 2016).
> (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.c++.moderated)
>
> I wrote a post myself almost a week ago and it wasn't published so
> far.
>
> Is the comp.lang.c++.moderated officially closed now?

Alas.

Victor Bazarov, the last moderator holding fort, posted about it in this
group.

The free duct-tape-and-chewing-gum-based e-mail infrastructure for the
moderation process, adopted after some University retired the original
moderation servers, just stopped working.

> Is there any replacement for it (other than this comp.lang.c++)?

Not really, no.

But if you look over at the ISO C++ pages there is a link there
somewhere to a Google group that corresponds more or less to old
moderated comp.std.c++ (the clc++m sister group), except that you can't
file a DR by posting there, as you could in the original comp.std.c++.

And maybe we could create such a Google group corresponding to clc++m,
but I'm sorry, I don't have the capacity to front such effort.


On behalf of the clc++m moderators,

- Alf

[Richard]

[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]

"Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.stein...@gmail.com> spake the secret code
<ofe88i$pm5$1...@dont-email.me> thusly:

>The free duct-tape-and-chewing-gum-based e-mail infrastructure for the
>moderation process, adopted after some University retired the original
>moderation servers, just stopped working.

I am willing to look at this infrastructure to see if it can be made
to work again.
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[Alf P. Steinbach]

On 16-May-17 10:35 PM, Richard wrote:
> [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]
>
> "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.stein...@gmail.com> spake the secret code
> <ofe88i$pm5$1...@dont-email.me> thusly:
>
>> The free duct-tape-and-chewing-gum-based e-mail infrastructure for the
>> moderation process, adopted after some University retired the original
>> moderation servers, just stopped working.
>
> I am willing to look at this infrastructure to see if it can be made
> to work again.

You can contact Daveed (David Vandevoorde). As I recall he set it up,
and he also led the moderators. It was John Potter who created and
maintained the scripts that automated things on the server. Since I
wasn't active moderating after 2012 I don't know much about it, sorry.

E-mail addresses:
http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm#Policy


Cheers!,

- Alf

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Tue, 2017-05-16, Richard wrote:
> [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]
>
> "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.stein...@gmail.com> spake the secret code
> <ofe88i$pm5$1...@dont-email.me> thusly:
>
>>The free duct-tape-and-chewing-gum-based e-mail infrastructure for the
>>moderation process, adopted after some University retired the original
>>moderation servers, just stopped working.
>
> I am willing to look at this infrastructure to see if it can be made
> to work again.

Could be worth it, even if it's just to:
- Post a message explaining that the group is inactive.
- Enable a later reactivation.

/Jorgen

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[woodb...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 12:52:16 AM UTC-5, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-05-16, Richard wrote:
> > [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]
> >
> > "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.stein...@gmail.com> spake the secret code
> > <ofe88i$pm5$1...@dont-email.me> thusly:
> >
> >>The free duct-tape-and-chewing-gum-based e-mail infrastructure for the
> >>moderation process, adopted after some University retired the original
> >>moderation servers, just stopped working.
> >
> > I am willing to look at this infrastructure to see if it can be made
> > to work again.
>
> Could be worth it, even if it's just to:
> - Post a message explaining that the group is inactive.

And to mention comp.lang.c++ in case they don't know about it.


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