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

On 2025-03-28, Tristan Miller wrote:
On 2025-03-13 21:03, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
On 2025-03-11, Usenet Big-8 Management Board wrote:

 >> 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)

On a second thought, I don't think I'd be able to do a good job
with rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature .  Rather, if the intent
is still to remove currently unusable moderated groups, I'd
take over comp.simulation.

 > 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.

I certainly would appreciate pointers to the relevant
specifications, guides, and software.

So far, I've checked News-Article and PGP-Sign on CPAN, and
I think I now have an idea how the signature in the X-Auth:
header is computed.

Other than that, my intent is to create group.name-submit@
aliases to my own mailbox come Monday, so once the
moderators.isc.org (?) mail forwarding configuration is
updated, I can start accept new postings in my queue.

http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/A/AG/AGIERTH/News-Article-1.27.tar.gz
http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/R/RR/RRA/PGP-Sign-1.04.tar.gz

 > 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

Not a call for volunteers, per se, but still:

news:pjOHLctoq1qK-GfX@violet.siamics.net
news:znMYX1Q_8IJQ9I0c@violet.siamics.net