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If you'd like to volunteer to help administer the Big 8, please [[Contacting the Board|contact the Boa * Identifying moderated newsgroups with absentee moderators

** TM reported that our LibrePlanet 2022 talk "Revitalizing Usenet" has been accepted for presentation on Saturday, 19 March 2022 from 13:35 t ...and its "Spam message handling" option set to "Moderate and notify content moderators". The meeting agreed to ask JK to send notifications directly to the Board

...raduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Usenet invent a method of sharing news]. |Usenet, Usenix, UUCP developed as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet "the poor man's ARPANET."]

...emove the groups, with RL abstaining. TM agreed to announce the result to Usenet and to the ISC. ...ssion for [https://carolinacon.org/ CarolinaCon Online 2], "Tales from the Usenet", has been accepted. The date and time will be announced when they are made

Archive-name: usenet/news.announce.newgroups/nan-summary-faq The Big-8 is a set of popular managed Usenet hierarchies, dating back to

...the NSP is the name-of-the-group, substituting hyphens for periods, plus <@moderators.isc.org>. For news.announce.newgroups, the ISC address comes out as: <pre>news-announce-newgroups@moderators.isc.org</pre>

...header]] line to selected users. However, the contents of the "Approved" [[Usenet headers|header]] is not checked. There are no provisions to handle crosspos * moderators show that they are still alive

...|Big-8 newsgroup hierarchies.]] After a year on probation, the [[n.a.n.]] moderators confirmed the work that the Board had done and made the changes in the syst ....com/group/news.groups/msg/78f59a941c51fbed?dmode=source&hl=en Preliminary Volunteer List: Next Step]

...t from Doug Freyburger, added the other Board members, and removed the old moderators. From looking at the archives, the mailing list gets mostly spam (a few me ** TM wrote to Tim Skirvin to ask if he is interested in continuing to volunteer.