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From: Robert Prins <robert@prino.org>
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Subject: Re: still moderated ?
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 20:42:43 +0000
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On 2024-09-03 16:30, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:35:21 +0000
> Robert Prins <robert@prino.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-08-27 21:22, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
>>> On 27.08.2024 20:00, wolfgang kern wrote:
>>>> On 16/08/2024 13:09, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> yeah, CLAX is dead again.
>>>>>>> whenever I find it (must be on any outsourced HD)
>>>>>>> I'll try to reach Frank on his old email.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> found it, it was in my brain :)
>>>>>> let's see if Frank can reply.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not looking likely.
>>>>
>>>> I just read the sad message, Frank went further in May 18.
>>>
>>> https://www.brewittfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Frank-B-Kotler?obId=31619052
>>
>> That's sad! Someone needs to get in touch with the Big-8 board, and we need a
>> new moderator ASAP.
>>
> True.
> 
> But there's so little asm related traffic these days; I'm posting my asm
> program (debug dumps) to:
>   
> news:alt.lang.asm
> 
> and
> 
> news:comp.os.msdos.programmer
> 
> these days and there's not a lot happening there either.

I send an email to the Big-8 management board, here's the reply:

<quote>
Big-8 Management Board
	
17:07 (3 hours ago)
	
to me
On 03/09/2024 18:42, Robert Prins wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > See the message in alt.lang.asm:
 >
 > <quote>
 > [snip]
 > https://www.brewittfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Frank-B-Kotler?obId=31619052
 >
 > </quote>
 >
 > Can you do something to enable the formal search for a new moderator?

Oh dear, that is terribly sad news.

Was Mr. Kotler the sole moderator for comp.lang.asm.x86? I see that the
moderation mailbox for the newsgroup is <clax86-submit@tmsw.no>,
presumably run by Terje Mathison who was also a contributor to the
group, but I'm not sure if he was also involved in moderation duties or
just hosted the mailbox for it.

Yes, we can certainly put out a call for a new moderator. In these
circumstances, this would mainly be a matter of finding one or more
volunteers who are willing to take on the work of regularly monitoring
the moderation mailbox and running some moderation software that sends
the approved messages to a news server.

Thank you for getting in touch and bringing this to our attention, and
hopefully we can find a way to get the group back into use promptly.

Kind regards,

Rayner Lucas
</quote>

OK, so we need a volunteer, I'm reluctantly willing to take up that role, 
provided that

1) I'm not the only one,

and that

2) it can be done as automatically as possible on W7 and/or Android and/or a, 
I'll fork out the money for it, Raspberry Pi,

because I also have other interests, last year I spent rather a lot of time on 
the road, with just a smartphone to keep me in the loop.

Robert
-- 
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