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Real Troll

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Aug 4, 2021, 1:29:27 PM8/4/21

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Please could you send an email to "bo...@big-8.org" to show your
willingness to be the two new moderators of

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

so that we can start to reopen those defunct newsgroups.

Please see my previous posts about this matter which I have quoted below:

Thank you for this if you can do this sometimes this week.

> 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 bo...@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

MrSpud...@ticzoofkkulzlsguri.ac.uk

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Aug 5, 2021, 4:58:35 AM8/5/21

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On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 17:26:30 +0000
Real Troll <real....@trolls.com> wrote:
>Please could you send an email to "bo...@big-8.org" to show your
>willingness to be the two new moderators of
>
>"comp.lang.c++.moderated"
>"comp.lang.c.moderated"
>
>so that we can start to reopen those defunct newsgroups.
>
>Please see my previous posts about this matter which I have quoted below:
>
>Thank you for this if you can do this sometimes this week.

When comp.lang.c++ gets a single digit number of posts a day I fail to see
the point of a moderated group that will probably attract almost none. There's
probably a good reason the above groups are defunct.

daniel...@gmail.com

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Aug 5, 2021, 9:06:21 AM8/5/21

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On Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 4:58:35 AM UTC-4, MrSpud...@ticzoofkkulzlsguri.ac.uk wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 17:26:30 +0000
> Real Troll <real....@trolls.com> wrote:
> >

> >"comp.lang.c++.moderated"
> >"comp.lang.c.moderated"

> >
> When comp.lang.c++ gets a single digit number of posts a day I fail to see
> the point of a moderated group that will probably attract almost none. There's
> probably a good reason the above groups are defunct.

Just so.

Vir Campestris

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Aug 6, 2021, 4:49:19 PM8/6/21

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On 05/08/2021 14:06, daniel...@gmail.com wrote:
> Just so.

<me too>

I'd even forgotten I'm subscribed to them both. There are no recent post
on either.

Andy

Keith Thompson

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Aug 6, 2021, 5:40:31 PM8/6/21

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I think "Real Troll" originally posted in another newsgroup, probably
something under news.*. Does anyone know which newsgroup it was?
(I'm mildly curious.)

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Mike Terry

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Aug 6, 2021, 6:51:46 PM8/6/21

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On 06/08/2021 22:40, Keith Thompson wrote:
> MrSpud...@ticzoofkkulzlsguri.ac.uk writes:
>> On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 17:26:30 +0000
>> Real Troll <real....@trolls.com> wrote:
>>> Please could you send an email to "bo...@big-8.org" to show your
>>> willingness to be the two new moderators of
>>>
>>> "comp.lang.c++.moderated"
>>> "comp.lang.c.moderated"
>>>
>>> so that we can start to reopen those defunct newsgroups.
>>>
>>> Please see my previous posts about this matter which I have quoted below:
>>>
>>> Thank you for this if you can do this sometimes this week.
>>
>> When comp.lang.c++ gets a single digit number of posts a day I fail to see
>> the point of a moderated group that will probably attract almost none. There's
>> probably a good reason the above groups are defunct.
>
> I think "Real Troll" originally posted in another newsgroup, probably
> something under news.*. Does anyone know which newsgroup it was?
> (I'm mildly curious.)
>

His first related post [Tue, 3 Aug 2021 23:25:13 +0100] included the
group news.groups.

Mike.

Bo Persson

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Aug 7, 2021, 3:20:15 AM8/7/21

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That's because the moderation server got lost years ago, so you just
cannot post anything, even if you want to.

Vir Campestris

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Aug 8, 2021, 4:53:12 PM8/8/21

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On 07/08/2021 08:19, Bo Persson wrote:
> On 2021-08-06 at 22:49, Vir Campestris wrote:
>> I'd even forgotten I'm subscribed to them both. There are no recent
>> post on either.
>

> That's because the moderation server got lost years ago, so you just
> cannot post anything, even if you want to.
>

Ah.

Thanks.
Andy