Re: 1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator

On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 02:24:04 -0500, Marco Moock wrote:

On 05.01.2025 02:13 Uhr noel wrote:
 

On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 15:38:59 -0500, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
 
 

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rec.arts.drwho.moderated        Discussion of "Doctor Who".
(Moderated)

 
 I didn't realise the moderator had left, but
true nobody's been using it

 
hard to use a moderated group if nobody's approving posts ;)
 
 
I'm still of the belief that lost-moderator groups have moderation flag
unset.

 
Am am not an English native speaker, I might misunderstood your
sentence.

Your English is better then my German :)

 
Moderated groups will cause the NNTP (actually NNRP) server to send
submissions to the moderation relays that will alias that to the actual
mod address.

Yes, correct

If the moderation flag is being removed, the submissions
will be directly posted to the group. This would mean a group is then
unmoderated. Such a change needs a control message sent out by the
hierarchy administrator.

Yes, correct (well unless admins are going to manually modify it, but
thats hardly appropriate since admins may not be aware of the change).


If nobody is moderating the groups, why not unmoderate them instead of
removing them, if they get use, fair enough, if not, there is no harm, no
extra resources used other than a handful of bytes for a one line entry
in active file which already has thousands of unmoderated groups that
haven't been posted to in 10 years anway.