Technical Team

Members and Duties

The Technical Team is appointed by the Board to issue control messages, moderate announcement groups, maintain the big-8.org web site and mailing lists, and perform other similar duties required to achieve the mission of the B8MB.

Coordinator: Tim Skirvin

Contact address: board@big-8.org

Members:

Russ Allbery -- PGP control keys, scripts
Todd Michel McComb -- n.a.n. moderation
Dave Sill -- wikimaster, news.admin.announce moderation team, 24/7/365 technical support for Board members.

news.admin.announce

submission address: news-admin-announce@robomod.net
e-mail contact: news-admin-announce-moderator@robomod.net
Moderators: Brian Emonds, Tim Skirvin, and Dave Sill.
n.a.a. Charter: "News.admin.announce is a forum for important announcements for news administrators. It is a moderated forum, watched over by a team of moderators for added speed. Possible topics for messages include announcements regarding news transport or browsing software, Frequently Asked Questions lists, announcements of new EMP cancellers, announcements of new cancellation criteria, reports that directly relate to the future of Usenet, reports on legal issues that directly affect news administrators such as the Communications Decency Act, and so forth. ..."

news.groups.proposals

submission address: ngp@ngp.big-8.org
e-mail contact: ngp-board@ngp.big-8.org
Moderators: Steve Bonine, Doug Freyburger, Kathy Morgan, Tim Skirvin
Charter
FAQ
Policy

Domain Registration

Tim Skirvin has control of domain registration and the DNS server.

Email

The board's mailing list is hosted by Google.

The MX of big-8.org refers to Alexander Bartolich's server. The mailer daemon there provides redirects for legacy email addresses.

Website

The board's Wiki ist hosted on Alexander Bartolich's server.

Observers

The following people are subscribed to the board's mailing list, even though they are not members.

Russ Allbery
Steve Bonine
Tim Skirvin
Dave Sill