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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Should comp.lang.c.moderated be revived?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:28:28 -0700
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> I just saw a post on news.announce.newgroups posted 2025-01-03, subject
> "1st RfD:  Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator".
>
> "This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the following
> 101 moderated newsgroups."
>
> comp.lang.c.moderated is on the list.
>
> Seebs was the moderator of comp.lang.c.moderated, but has
> not participated since 2014.  There have been no posts on
> comp.lang.c.moderated since then.
>
> There have been discussions here in comp.lang.c in 2018 and 2021
> about reviving comp.lang.c.moderated.  I emailed Seebs about this
> at the time, and he expressed tentative interesting in seeing it
> revived, but with someone else moderating it.
>
> My tentative opinion is that it's probably not worth reviving,
> but if others are sufficiently interested *and* someone volunteers
> to moderate it, perhaps it could be done.  If it were revived,
> I'd certainly subscribe and participate.
>
> One possible concern is that if comp.lang.c.moderated is removed,
> historical posts might be lost.  I don't know whether that's
> a valid concern.  It might depend on the policies of individual
> Usenet servers and archives.

I am in favor of reviving comp.lang.c.moderated, and hope a
suitable moderating arrangement can be found.

Technical question:  is it feasible to have moderating duties
be shared among several people on some sort of rotating basis?
I have no experience moderating a usenet news group.