Reviving rec.arts.ascii

Hi all,

First an introduction as I'm almost certainly unknown to you all. I've 
always enjoyed ascii art but have never managed to produce anything 
more than a few flow charts and haven't really thought about a 
newsgroup for it until relatively recently when I head of r.a.a. The 
fact that it is dead is, IMO, a shame and I am interested to see of 
there is any wish from others to get it going again.

I have been moderating news.groups.reviews for a while now and one of 
my co-moderators there also moderates other groups. He has offered to 
let me use his robo-moderator to ensure a quick turn round and 
relatively little work for the moderators. This would basically be done 
by using tags to keep out spam and try to make life easier for those 
wishing to filter and then by checking against a list of posters who 
have been selected for hand moderation. Anything that passed those 
would be posted almost immediatly. The rest (with the exception of 
spam) would be passed to a human moderator. There are other set ups 
possible but this strikes me as the best. Comments welcome on preferred 
other ways of doing it.

With regards the mechanics of moderating the group it would be handy if 
I could get hold of the old moderator and let him OK it. There is 
another way but it can take a while. The last moderator I have found is 
Don Bertino. From what I can find on the web his e-mail address was 
ber...@netcom.com. Doing an EXPN on rec...@moderators.isc.org 
also gave me asc...@netcom.com. Both of these are bounced by netcom 
as user unknown. If anyone knows anything else then I'd be interested 
to hear it. Also if anyone is willing to help out as a co-moderator 
then I'd welcome all comers. It isn't that hard technically and the 
more doing it the less pressure there is to check the box reguarly.

Thoughts and comments welcome.

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