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Unfortunately, moderating a newsgroup has become a pretty tough
> challenge these days. There's the technical considerations to keep
> the basic functionality and archives going along. Then there's the
> massive amount of spam, viruses, etc to be filtered out, as well as
> off-topic and nasty messages.
I am willing to help on the technical side of keeping this mailing list going, and I may be able to contribute some bandwidth and CPU.
but as has been pointed out, Pat has set a very high bar, and I am certainly not knowledgeable enough to moderate some of the highly informed contributions to this group/mailing list.
It might be helpful to have multiple moderators to share the load. I
> think the world-war-II newsgroup does that, with incoming messages
> routed around to the different moderators.
This is an excellent suggestion, in addition to John Levine, I might suggest Floyd Davidson as well. (their time and inclinations permitting of course ...)
Hopefully Pat will be with us for a long time to come.
Seconded, he has played a very large role in informing this community over the years, and i hope that he will be able to do so for many years to come.
sidd