Nan:2009-11-28-mvi-comp-unix-bsd-netbsd-announce

From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Announcement: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:47:37 EST
Message-ID: <hesgh9$mqq$1@news.albasani.net>


              MODERATOR VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT (MVA)
              moderated group comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce

This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Announcement (MVA), initiated because
the moderator of above-listed moderated newsgroup has resigned.

RATIONALE:

Chris Demetriou replied to a probe post and took the issue to the board
of the NetBSD Foundation. Matthias Scheler, on behalf of the board of
directors, says that they are no longer using the group and suggests
that it is removed.

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce	Announcements pertaining to NetBSD. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce

CHARTER OF COMP.UNIX.BSD.NETBSD.ANNOUNCE

        Moderated by Chris Demetriou <cgd@alpha.bostic.com>.

        This newsgroup is for announcements relating to the NetBSD
        operating system. Things appropriate for the .announce group
        would include announcements of new versions of NetBSD,
        announcements of major software releases (both commercial and
        freely redistributable) for NetBSD (e.g. new version of X11 for
        NetBSD), announcements of fixes for major bugs, and the like.
        FAQs relating to NetBSD should also be cross-posted to this group.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote
for creation by 332:70 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 22 Feb 1995.

PROPONENT:

Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

PROCEDURE:

Those who wish to comment on this moderator vacancy announcement should
subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in the relevant
threads in that newsgroup.  

To this end, the followup header of this MVA has been set to 
news.groups.proposals.

For more information on the MVA process, please see 

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

CHANGE HISTORY:

2009-10-29	Probe post
2009-11-10	Matthias Scheler declares that the group is unused
2009-11-29	Moderator Vacancy Announcement