still moderated ?

[Robert Prins]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:35:21 +0000

...

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
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

Hi,
<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-***@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

[Phil Carmody]

Post by Robert Prins

On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:35:21 +0000

I just read the sad message, Frank went further in May 18.

https://www.brewittfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Frank-B-Kotler?obId=31619052

That is sad news. His contributions were always welcome.

"In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to the ACLU."
Nice idea. I think I'll treat my g/f to one of these:
https://shop.aclu.org/dissent-is-patriotic-tee-black/

Post by Robert Prins

That's sad! Someone needs to get in touch with the Big-8 board, and we need a
new moderator ASAP.

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.

If you look back into the history, you'll see I was one of the
volunteers to when moderation was first proposed. IIRC, there were
7 or 8 of us, the others' identities have faded into mist now - all
I remember was that Scott Nudds wasn't one of them.

As I was kinda responsible for putting it into that state, I guess I
should also volunteer to maintain it, though with the same reluctance
and provisos as you. "No new software" would be my #1 restriction. My
RasPi is very old, has a very old distro, so anything too fancy might be
an issue. Does anyone know the actual details of what's needed?

Phil

[wolfgang kern]

On 03/10/2024 00:17, Phil Carmody wrote:
...

Post by Phil Carmody
That is sad news. His contributions were always welcome.

Yeah, I really miss Beth, Chuck, Nate and now Frank too.
...

Post by Phil Carmody
If you look back into the history, you'll see I was one of the
volunteers to when moderation was first proposed. IIRC, there were
7 or 8 of us, the others' identities have faded into mist now - all
I remember was that Scott Nudds wasn't one of them.

Yep let's avoid trolls and nuts.

Post by Phil Carmody
As I was kinda responsible for putting it into that state, I guess I
should also volunteer to maintain it, though with the same reluctance
and provisos as you. "No new software" would be my #1 restriction. My
RasPi is very old, has a very old distro, so anything too fancy might be
an issue. Does anyone know the actual details of what's needed?

I'd say just go for it...
look what recent ASM questions were about (anyway hard to find any).
most questions were about tools, compiler issues and rare instructions.
me think that x86-64 isn't dead yet, so a collection of links could
provide a good base for supporting newbies :)
__
wolfgang