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From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.lang.java.announce

Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:14:16 EST

Message-ID: <hjg6t6$7e8$1@news.albasani.net>





              MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)

              moderated group comp.lang.java.announce



This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because

moderated newsgroup comp.lang.java.announce is not functioning,

and may have been abandoned by its moderator(s).



This investigation will attempt to verify the reasons for non-function,

and may result in the removal of the group or the selection and instal-

lation of a new moderator.  In practice, the Big-8 Management Board

considers the third alternative--changing the status of the group from

moderated to unmoderated--as likely to cause more harm than good.



RATIONALE:



Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.



<comp-lang-java-announce@moderators.isc.org>: host

  moderators.individual.net[130.133.4.7] said: 550 Unrouteable address (in

  reply to RCPT TO command)



NEWSGROUPS LINE:



comp.lang.java.announce	Announcements re the Java System. (Moderated)



DISTRIBUTION:



news.announce.newgroups

news.groups.proposals

comp.lang.java.announce

comp.lang.misc



CHARTER OF COMP.LANG.JAVA.ANNOUNCE



  This moderated, low-volume group is for Java-related announcements,

  including:



    o  new releases of software

       (compilers, development kits, browsers, etc.)

    o  new publicly accessible applets

    o  events (user group meetings, conferences, etc.)

    o  new packages or announcements of official specification changes.



  This is not a discussion group (posts that are likely to generate

  discussion should have follow-ups set to one of the other Java groups).



  Moderation policy:



  The intent of moderation is to ensure this is a low-noise group, and to

  prevent excessive advertising by any single company.  Posts announcing

  commercial products are acceptable, providing they are kept to a

  reasonable frequency.

  It is not appropriate to post binary classfiles or long source listings

  on any of these groups. Instead, the post should reference a WWW or FTP

  site (short source snippets to demonstrate a particular point or problem

  are fine).



HISTORY OF THE GROUP:



comp.lang.java.announce is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for

creation by 491:38 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 11 Jun 1996.



PROPONENT:



Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>



PROCEDURE:



Those who wish to comment on this moderator vacancy investigation should

subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in the relevant

threads in that newsgroup.  



To this end, the followup header of this MVI has been set to 

news.groups.proposals.



For more information on the MVI process, please see 



http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:mvi



CHANGE HISTORY:



2010-01-19	Probe post

2010-01-24	Moderator Vacancy Investigation

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