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From: Tristan Miller <tmiller@big-8.org>
Newsgroups: news.groups.proposals
Subject: Re: 3rd RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 18:50:04 EDT
Organization: Usenet Big-8 Management Board
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Dear Ivan,

On 2025-05-09 09:45, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> 	I've created the following email addresses (currently aliased to
> 	one of my mailboxes) for articles to comp.newprod, comp.simulation,
> 	comp.std.announce and rec.photo.moderated, respectively:

Thanks!  Could you please also provide us with a moderator contact 
address for each of the four groups?  (This would be used in the event 
that we, the ISC, or posters need to contact the moderators.)

> 	I plan to use my existing Eternal September account to inject
> 	the approved articles.  It dawned on me, however, that allowing
> 	that same account to be used by co-moderators (should there be
> 	any), such as via the web interface I intended to deploy, would
> 	perhaps be seen as abuse, so instead I will be providing access
> 	to the queue for the co-moderators to pick articles from there,
> 	and post the approved ones via their own accounts.  (Having an
> 	account that allows posting Approved: articles thus becomes a
> 	requirement for prospective co-moderators.)  Alternatively, I
> 	can add a co-moderator's email to my aliases(5), so they get
> 	copies of new submissions.

Whether or not allowing your co-moderators to use a web interface that 
posts approved messages using your Eternal September account counts as 
"abuse" is up to the Eternal September admins.  Possibly they will be OK 
with this as long as you agree to take ultimate responsibility for the 
posts, but you should ask them in advance for confirmation about this.

By the way, have you examined the existing newsgroup charters and 
moderation policies for the groups you want to take over?  These should 
be available at 
<https://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/>.  You should 
make sure that you are willing and able to moderate the groups according 
to these charters and policies.  There's no formal procedure for 
changing them, but if any major changes are necessary, an RFD could be 
initiated, and we can help with that.

Finally, and this is entirely optional, but you may want to consider 
creating web pages for each of the groups where you provide its charter, 
moderation policy, submission address, moderator contact address, list 
of moderators, signing key, and any other pertinent information.  This 
can help make the group more discoverable online and collect important 
information in a somewhat less ephemeral location.

Regards,
Tristan

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