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Re: Few Newbie Qs about Usenet Newsgroups !

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by: Jason Evans - Tue, 17 May 2022 18:08 UTC

Linux Booter wrote:

> Hello !
>
> I have a few questions regarding newsgroups.

Hi LB,

I don't know if anyone will see this, but I'm crossposting this reply to
alt.fan.usenet which is a much more active newsgroup and might help other
people in also.

>
> -How does one become a moderator of a usenet newsgroup?

I can't speak for every hierarchy, but I do work on the Big-8 Management
board. Basically, if a moderated Big-8 newsgroup has been abandoned, we can
research who was the last moderator. If they don't want to moderate anymore,
then it can go to someone else.

Here's a simplified breakdown of how moderation works:

A user submits an article to a moderated newsgroup.
The news server that the user uses sends an email to the moderator.

The moderator sends the approved article to a news server with an "approved"
header. Many times, the user will also sign the message with a PGP/GPG key.

The news server that the moderator uses accepts the article and it then goes
online.

If the moderator denies the article, they may reply to the user with a
reason or they can simply delete it.

>
> -How to find if any newsgroup has a moderator or the newsgroup is not
> moderated ?

Here's a list of active newsgroups. The name and/or description usually says
what is moderated or not.

>
> - How to find out who is the moderator of a newsgroup
>

That's more difficult. I don't know if that list is publicly available
because it contains peoples' email addresses. If you want to know about a
specific group, I can look it up.

> ( I know posting these questions on a newsgroup is the obvious solution,
> but please lets consider that the newsgroup has infrequent activity and
> no one replies, then can obtain the above information from external
> sources? Does usenet servers have websites etc to get the above
> information..
>
>
> I tried to google it but could not find the answer.

Our website, https://www.big-8.org, is a good resource for research and
you'll find a lot on wikipedia also.

>
> thanks.

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by: David Brooks - Sun, 31 Jul 2022 22:39 UTC

On 17/05/2022 19:08, Jason Evans wrote:
> Linux Booter wrote:
>
>> Hello !
>>
>> I have a few questions regarding newsgroups.
>
> Hi LB,
>
> I don't know if anyone will see this, but I'm crossposting this reply to
> alt.fan.usenet which is a much more active newsgroup and might help other
> people in also.
>
>>
>> -How does one become a moderator of a usenet newsgroup?
>
> I can't speak for every hierarchy, but I do work on the Big-8 Management
> board. Basically, if a moderated Big-8 newsgroup has been abandoned, we can
> research who was the last moderator. If they don't want to moderate anymore,
> then it can go to someone else.
>
> Here's a simplified breakdown of how moderation works:
>
> A user submits an article to a moderated newsgroup.
> The news server that the user uses sends an email to the moderator.
>
> The moderator sends the approved article to a news server with an "approved"
> header. Many times, the user will also sign the message with a PGP/GPG key.
>
> The news server that the moderator uses accepts the article and it then goes
> online.
>
> If the moderator denies the article, they may reply to the user with a
> reason or they can simply delete it.
>
>>
>> -How to find if any newsgroup has a moderator or the newsgroup is not
>> moderated ?
>
> Here's a list of active newsgroups. The name and/or description usually says
> what is moderated or not.
>
>>
>> - How to find out who is the moderator of a newsgroup
>>
>
> That's more difficult. I don't know if that list is publicly available
> because it contains peoples' email addresses. If you want to know about a
> specific group, I can look it up.
>
>
>> ( I know posting these questions on a newsgroup is the obvious solution,
>> but please lets consider that the newsgroup has infrequent activity and
>> no one replies, then can obtain the above information from external
>> sources? Does usenet servers have websites etc to get the above
>> information..
>>
>>
>> I tried to google it but could not find the answer.
>
> Our website, https://www.big-8.org, is a good resource for research and
> you'll find a lot on wikipedia also.

Hello Jason

Just a note to let you know that your words were not wasted! :-D

Kind regards,

David B.

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Subject	Author
Re: Few Newbie Qs about Usenet Newsgroups !	Jason Evans
Few Newbie Qs about Usenet Newsgroups !	David Brooks