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<p>Created page with &#039;&lt;pre&gt; From: Big-8 Management Board &lt;board@big-8.org&gt; Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.admin.announce,news.groups.proposals Subject: Moderator change for news.admin.announ…&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;pre&gt;<br /> From: Big-8 Management Board &lt;board@big-8.org&gt;<br /> Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.admin.announce,news.groups.proposals<br /> Subject: Moderator change for news.admin.announce<br /> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:41:52 EDT<br /> Message-ID: &lt;EZednUc3NatSUavXnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d@supernews.com&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> Effective 13 June 2009, the following people have become the moderators <br /> of news.admin.announce:<br /> <br /> Kathy Morgan &lt;kmorgan@aptalaska.net&gt;<br /> Peter J Ross &lt;peadar.ruadh@gmail.com&gt;<br /> Aatu Koskensilta &lt;aatu.koskensilta@uta.fi&gt;<br /> Doug Venator (dvus) &lt;doug@dvenator.com&gt;<br /> <br /> The new moderators are grateful to their predecessors (Brian <br /> Edmonds, Dave Sill and Tim Skirvin) for their past work, and intend <br /> to make no changes to existing moderation policies.<br /> <br /> Delays are possible for a few days while the new moderators change <br /> the carpets, wallpaper and lampshades in the Official Moderation <br /> Hut.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, here&#039;s the news.admin.announce charter:<br /> <br /> News.admin.announce is a forum for important announcements for news <br /> administrators. It is a moderated forum, watched over by a team of <br /> moderators for added speed. Possible topics for messages include <br /> announcements regarding news transport or browsing software, <br /> Frequently Asked Questions lists, announcements of new EMP <br /> cancellers, announcements of new cancellation criteria, reports that <br /> directly relate to the future of Usenet, reports on legal issues <br /> that directly affect news administrators such as the Communications <br /> Decency Act, and so forth.<br /> <br /> News.admin.announce is moderated by a team of moderators. The <br /> moderators will approve any message that they feel fits the <br /> following criteria:<br /> <br /> 1. The message is an announcement that the moderators feel is <br /> important for most or all news administrators.<br /> <br /> 2. The message is formatted for 78 or less characters per line, and <br /> is easily human readable.<br /> <br /> 3. The message is not a binary, nor will it break standard Usenet <br /> readers.<br /> <br /> 4. Followups for the message are set appropriately.<br /> <br /> At any time, moderators can be added or removed by a majority vote <br /> of the then-current moderators.<br /> <br /> The moderators look forward to seeing ever-increasing numbers of on-<br /> topic articles. <br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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