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

In article <slrn100jdfb.1kau.tidux@tankpad.borg.moe>, tidux@borg.moe
says...

 
On 2025-03-11, Usenet Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> wrote:

               REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
>
This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the following
99 moderated newsgroups.
>
rec.arts.anime.creative Original works by fans, related to anime/manga.
(Moderated)

It looks like the previous moderator set up robomod in 2005[1] and was
using it satisfactorily until some time in 2016.  The robomod service
has been discontinued which is why the modmail address
raac-moderator@robomod.net is not working.
 
I have no interest in running manual moderator approval flows for
r.a.a.c but I do have my own email domain and an always-online server
with a static IP, so if there is an equivalent service to robomod, or if
the robomod software still works self hosted, I would be interested in
running it for rec.arts.anime.creative.
 
 
[1]: https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php? \
id=rec.arts.anime.creative&y=0&r=0&p=671

Hi,

Robomod.net is, as you say, defunct, and I'm not sure if the software it
used is currently available anywhere (if anybody is aware of a place to
get it, we'd be grateful to know about it).

There's a robomoderator package called "Marvin" available from
https://users.ics.aalto.fi/kaip/marvin/. It was written in 2001, so I
expect it'll need Python 2 to work. I haven't tried using it, but it
does have at some basic documentation and is a fairly small amount of
code, so it should be possible to figure it out.

I'll also drop you an email.

Kind regards,
Rayner