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How to hand over a Big-8 group to a new moderator

29-Dec-10

From time to time, a newsgroup moderator decides to turn over the group to a new moderator. There has been some confusion as to how such changes should be communicated to the operators of the moderation relays (so that submissions will find their way to the new moderator’s email address).

Social aspects of newsgroup moderation and mailing list administration

25-Jul-10

Some recent events have made me ponder on how those of us (tinw) who run non-commercial mailing lists and/or newsgroups as a hobby view that role of theirs.