Re: 3rd RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator

Dear Ivan,
On 2025-03-13 21:03, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

Having little prior interest in moderated newsgroups, I'm not
familiar with the moderation process, or at least its technical
details; however, I have for a long time had interest in netnews
and Internet standards in general, so I'd be willing to give it
a try, including entirely by myself.  However, my preference
would be to be a part of a team instead, as I don't feel ready
to invest effort in the process on a daily basis.
  I'd be interested in (co)moderating the following groups.
   > comp.newprod            Announcements of new products of interest.
  >   (Moderated)
  > comp.std.announce       Announcements about standards activities.
  >   (Moderated)
  > rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature       Guitar tablature and performance.
  >   (Moderated)
  > rec.photo.moderated     The art and science of photography.  (Moderated)

Moderation is most conveniently done with a dedicated software package, and we'd be happy to advise you on the options and with getting one of them set up on your infrastructure.  This initial setup will probably be most of the effort; after that it's just a matter of approving or rejecting posts, in accordance with the group's charter and moderation policy, as they come in.  As the groups have been disused for some time now there may not be many submissions unless or until some effort is made to revive the community.  We could start this off by posting an announcement of the new moderator here and in other relevant groups, though arranging for some additional targeted announcements would be helpful.
In any case, it's always a good idea to have multiple moderators.  Would you be willing to post calls for volunteers in the groups related to the ones you are interested in moderating?  I could suggest at least the following:
comp.newprod -> comp.misc
comp.std.announce -> comp.misc, comp.std.misc
rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature -> rec.music.makers.guitar, rec.music
rec.photo.moderated -> rec.photo.misc
We could do this on your behalf, though it would probably look better coming from you as the actual volunteer; this might also give you the opportunity to gauge whether there's actually any interest in reviving the groups.
Regards,
Tristan
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