Nan:2010-01-23-mvi-misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics

From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:20:25 EST
Message-ID: <hjg6t7$7ei$1@news.albasani.net>


              MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
              moderated group misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics

This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics 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.

  maat@anti-fascism.org
    (generated from misc-activism-anti-fascism-tactics@moderators.isc.org)
    retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics	Planning anti-fascist activities. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics

CHARTER OF MISC.ACTIVISM.ANTI-FASCISM.TACTICS

Misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics moderated is intended as the anti-fascist
time/space antipode of soc.politics.anti-fascism. It is for discussions and
debates of real-time anti-fascist activities (NB: the triple plural)

Moderation Policy:

The moderator(s) will actively encourage critical anti-fascist discussions and
debates of anti-fascist real-time actions. The moderator(s) reserve the right
to reject posts that are off-topic to the declared purpose of the group.

Single cross-posts will generally not be accepted; non-spammed multiple
postings to other news groups and discussion lists will not be actively
discouraged.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics is a moderated newsgroup which passed its
vote for creation by 719:110 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on
27 Feb 1998.

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:

2010-01-17	Probe post
2010-01-24	Moderator Vacancy Investigation