Re: Should comp.lang.c.moderated be revived?

Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

I just saw a post on news.announce.newgroups posted 2025-01-03, subject
"1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator".
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"This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the following
101 moderated newsgroups."
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comp.lang.c.moderated is on the list.
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Seebs was the moderator of comp.lang.c.moderated, but has
not participated since 2014.  There have been no posts on
comp.lang.c.moderated since then.
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There have been discussions here in comp.lang.c in 2018 and 2021
about reviving comp.lang.c.moderated.  I emailed Seebs about this
at the time, and he expressed tentative interesting in seeing it
revived, but with someone else moderating it.
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My tentative opinion is that it's probably not worth reviving,
but if others are sufficiently interested *and* someone volunteers
to moderate it, perhaps it could be done.  If it were revived,
I'd certainly subscribe and participate.
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One possible concern is that if comp.lang.c.moderated is removed,
historical posts might be lost.  I don't know whether that's
a valid concern.  It might depend on the policies of individual
Usenet servers and archives.

Seebs replied to my email:
"""
I'd be happy to hand it off to someone but I'm pretty overwhelmed
right now and couldn't actually participate. But I still have the
account and could hand it off.

-s
"""

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