New EasyList maintainer: Ares2

[Wladimir Palant]

Reposting from http://adblockplus.org/blog/what-is-going-on-with-easylist:

EasyList development has to continue, despite the sad events. Many of you already know Ares2, he is a very active (and helpful) member of both EasyList and Adblock Plus forums. He has been maintaining a German complementary subscription for EasyList and Rick was speaking highly of his work. I asked Ares2 to take over EasyList maintenance and I am glad to announce that he accepted.

Please give Ares2 your support in his new role, he has some big shoes to fill. Maintaining a filter list used by millions of people is a big and complicated task, also complicated by the fact that Ares2 himself isn’t a US national. So community help will be essential. But I am confident that everything will work out well nevertheless.

[Hubird]

Excellent choice, I can't think of anyone better to continue Rick's tireless work.

[Billy]

Congrats, Ares2!

[MonztA]

I knew it.

[IceDogg]

As I said at the Blog, Ares2 was the first name that came to mind. I know you'll do a fine job Ares2. Congrats and good luck!

[salvy]

Yay, I know Ares will do a great job to continue Easylist .

[Ares2]

Thanks for all the encouraging and congratulations, guys. I will definitely do my best to continue Rick's work. Thanks Wladimir for posting the announcement here and especially for choosing me as the new EasyList maintainer.

As Wladimir said, I will need some additional help, especially when we have to find the right filters for sites which are restricted to specific countries (to the U.S. most of the time). And please don't stop to report false positives and unblocked ads here, it's the most important part in maintaining EasyList.

That said, I will start going through all the piled up suggestions in this forum to get EasyList and EasyPrivacy up-to-date again.

[VF]

Congratulations - Actually, not congratulations, but thank you. I know it's for the most part a thankless job that takes a lot of work and effort. Thank you for continuing the project and giving it so much of your time.

For my part, I'm going to try to show up here more often to help.

[Grail Knight]

Thanks Ares2 for stepping in to continue the development of the Easy List.

[Lian]

The list stays in good hands

[loveleeyoungae]

Good luck, and thanks for all your help too, Ares2