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  • 22:36, 22 March 2024Minutes/2024-03-22 (hist | edit) ‎[2,068 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|comp.sys.wearables}}, {{news|comp.protocols.dns.bind}}, {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}}, {{news|comp.os.plan9}} *** No further updates. ** Moderation status of {{news|news.admin.technical}} *** Ivo Gandolfo has agreed to take over as moderator and says he has the requisite technical resources in place. He will write to Russ Allbery to ask whether he would serve as a backup moderator. Agreed to wait for further news from him. ** {{news|comp.pro...")
  • 22:25, 18 March 2024Minutes/2024-03-15 (hist | edit) ‎[977 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|comp.sys.wearables}} *** No further updates. ** {{news|comp.protocols.dns.bind}} *** No further updates ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** No further updates. ** Moderation status of {{news|news.admin.technical}} *** No further updates. ** Proposal to revitalize {{news|comp.os.plan9}} *** No further updates. * Infrastructure ** Mail server *** RL still to work on getting the webmail and admin front-ends working again. * Software...")
  • 20:35, 8 March 2024Minutes/2024-03-08 (hist | edit) ‎[1,330 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|comp.sys.wearables}} *** RL to ping Greg Pfeil as necessary. ** {{news|comp.protocols.dns.bind}} *** Dan Mahoney, the mailing list administrator, replied to RL confirming that the news gateway broke a while ago, but he's not sure why. He says the list will be moving to new mailing list software and is not sure whether it will support the news gateway. He would like to find a solution that preserves the gateway and is investigating this. ** Re...")
  • 18:23, 5 March 2024Minutes/2024-03-01 (hist | edit) ‎[2,405 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|comp.sys.wearables}} *** The Board received an e-mail report that this moderated group is not working. RL contacted the moderator, Greg Pfeil, who indicated that he intends to continue moderating the group. RL has been helping him on technical issues. ** {{news|comp.protocols.dns.bind}} *** The Board received an e-mail report that posts to this moderated group from its established mail-to-news gateway have not been showing up since 2020. It'...")
  • 23:42, 26 February 2024Minutes/2024-02-23 (hist | edit) ‎[1,128 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** No further communication from volunteer moderator; RL to ping ** Moderation status of {{news|news.admin.technical}} *** Scott Hazen Mueller has confirmed that he did not seek or find any replacement moderators his groups. *** Marco has confirmed that he is interested in posting to {{news|news.admin.technical}}. *** The Board agreed to issue an MVI for {{news|news.admin.technical}}. TM to handle this. **...")
  • 18:41, 15 February 2024Minutes/2024-02-15 (hist | edit) ‎[2,297 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** TM posted the announcement of the new moderator. ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** TM has posted a follow-up to the LCC indicating that the matter is on hold pending further discussion with the volunteer. *** RL has been continuing to discuss the moderation setup with the volunteer. ** Moderation status of {{news|news.admin.technical}} *** Scott Hazen Mueller has respond...")
  • 22:52, 9 February 2024Minutes/2024-02-09 (hist | edit) ‎[2,573 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** TM still to post the announcement of the new moderator. ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** After the call for votes was issued, the Board received an e-mail from someone volunteering to take over as moderator for the group. JS discussed this with Paul Schleck, and as a result of this discussion TM wrote to the volunteer for further information on their background and pla...")
  • 22:24, 26 January 2024Minutes/2024-01-19 (hist | edit) ‎[1,315 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** The Board had offered to announce the new moderator; Bixby has confirmed that this can now go ahead, since the moderation system is working. TM to post this announcement in the same venues as the MVI. ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** TM posted the LCC on 2024-10-15. Voting period will be from 2024-10-20 to 2024-10-27. ** {{news|news.admin.technical}} *** Marco Moock w...")
  • 20:35, 15 January 2024Minutes/2024-01-12 (hist | edit) ‎[465 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** E-mail from Bixby; to be handled by TM ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** No responses to the 2nd RFD. TM to post the LCC. * Misc ** Salahuddin has written concerning a new moderation tool; TM to respond ** RL may have Internet access issues for the next few days or weeks, so TM to handle any e-mail correspondence for now. Category:Meeting minutes for 2024")
  • 16:25, 29 December 2023Minutes/2023-12-29 (hist | edit) ‎[471 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|comp.os.plan9}} *** No response yet from proponent. Agreed to defer. ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** Moderator reports he will be signing up with Panix ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** No comments yet on 2nd RFD. Agreed to defer. * Misc ** Agreed to change the regular meeting time to Fridays at 15:00 GMT/BST due to a conflicting appointment for TM Category:Meeting minutes for 2023")
  • 16:39, 22 December 2023Minutes/2023-12-22 (hist | edit) ‎[656 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|comp.os.plan9}} *** The Board received an MVI enquiry for {{news|comp.os.plan9}}. RL has been following up. ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** Moderator reports continued difficulties submitting approved posts to news servers; RL to e-mail him with further advice ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} ** {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and {{news|news.announce.newusers}} *** RL still importing the FAQs...")
  • 01:03, 15 December 2023Finding newsgroups and subscribing to them (hist | edit) ‎[5,292 bytes]Rayner Lucas (talk | contribs) (Import of old NNQ web site "Finding newsgroups and subscribing to them" article)
  • 16:09, 8 December 2023Minutes/2023-12-08 (hist | edit) ‎[393 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and {{news|news.announce.newusers}} *** RL has continued importing the FAQs into the wiki ** {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** TM has posted a revised draft of the RFD, and it has been attracting some discussion. * Misc ** Agreed to cancel next week's meeting since TM has a conflicting appointment. Category:Meeting minutes for 2023")
  • 22:53, 3 December 2023How to post messages to news.newusers.questions (hist | edit) ‎[12,579 bytes]Rayner Lucas (talk | contribs) (Import of old NNQ web site "how to post" article (with some updating))
  • 17:29, 1 December 2023Minutes/2023-12-01 (hist | edit) ‎[318 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and {{news|news.announce.newusers}} *** RL has started importing the FAQs into the wiki ** {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** TM send a draft RFD to PS and RL. He will revise it in accordance with their comments and post it. Category:Meeting minutes for 2023")
  • 16:50, 1 December 2023Administrative statement for news.newusers.questions (hist | edit) ‎[2,799 bytes]Rayner Lucas (talk | contribs) (Import of old NNQ admin statement (with relevant updates))
  • 04:11, 1 December 2023News.newusers.questions (hist | edit) ‎[3,824 bytes]Rayner Lucas (talk | contribs) (Import of old NNQ web site index (most links to be added))
  • 17:31, 24 November 2023Minutes/2023-11-24 (hist | edit) ‎[1,524 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and {{news|news.announce.newusers}} *** RL has finished setting up the moderation system for these groups and will post to them an announcement that we are the new moderators. *** Revision and wikification of the FAQs still TBD ** {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** The moderator reports further progress on the moderation system. ** {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** TM has reviewed the past correspondence with...")
  • 19:17, 17 November 2023Minutes/2023-11-17 (hist | edit) ‎[1,536 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and {{news|news.announce.newusers}} *** RL still in the process of setting up STUMP for {{news|news.announce.newusers}}, as some procmail recipes need debugging. (The existing rules mistakenly allowed two test messages to be posted to the group despite being rejected by STUMP.) *** RL has posted the charters and signing keys for these groups on the wiki *** Revising the FAQs still TBD ** {{news|comp.os.linux.announce}...")
  • 01:18, 17 November 2023Signing key for news.announce.newusers (hist | edit) ‎[1,819 bytes]Rayner Lucas (talk | contribs) (Created page with signing key for news.announce.newusers)
  • 19:41, 16 November 2023Signing key for news.newusers.questions (hist | edit) ‎[1,817 bytes]Rayner Lucas (talk | contribs) (Create page with new signing key for n.n.q)
  • 01:46, 16 November 2023Charter for news.newusers.questions (hist | edit) ‎[7,336 bytes]Rayner Lucas (talk | contribs) (Created page with charter text from the old n.n.q website (formerly at http://www.anta.net/misc/nnq/charter.shtml))
  • 15:35, 12 November 2023Minutes/2023-11-10 (hist | edit) ‎[852 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** The new moderator, Bixby, reports that he is almost done writing his own moderation software and has already updated the group's submission address with the ISC. ** {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and {{news|news.announce.newusers}} *** RL has received the latest FAQs from Kathy Morgan. These need to be updated. ** {{news|comp.os.linux.announce}} *** A user reported to TM that a post...")
  • 16:18, 3 November 2023Minutes/2023-11-03 (hist | edit) ‎[969 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and {{news|news.announce.newusers}} *** RL has produced working procmail recipes for {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and will do the same for {{news|news.announce.newusers}}. *** RL has suggested obtaining the latest version of the FAQs that were periodically posted to these groups so that we can continue to post them ourselves. Agreed that RL would check with Kathy Morgan what the latest versions are. ** {{news|rec....")
  • 15:18, 3 November 2023Minutes/2023-10-27 (hist | edit) ‎[546 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and {{news|news.announce.newusers}}: No further updates. * Infrastructure ** Mail server. RL fixed SSL certificate, but did not yet upgrade mail-in-a-box. TM to add SpamAssassin whitelist rules. * (Web)STUMP ** TM: No update yet on GPG signing best practices on Savannah * Publicity ** LibrePlanet 2024: Deadline for session proposals extended to 17 November. * Misc ** PS has sent updates to the sample .newsrc file. RL...")
  • 14:53, 27 October 2023Minutes/2023-10-20 (hist | edit) ‎[853 bytes]Tristan Miller (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Administration ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** The prospective moderator, Bixby, has indicated to the Board that he will be writing his own moderation software. ** {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and {{news|news.announce.newusers}}: No further updates. * Infrastructure ** Mail server SSL certificate: No further updates. * (Web)STUMP ** TM: No update yet on GPG signing best practices on Savannah * Publicity ** LibrePlanet 2024: No p...")