Nan:2024-10-28 mvi-comp.os.plan9.txt
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From: Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups.proposals,comp.os.plan9 Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.os.plan9 Followup-To: news.groups.proposals Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:53:05 EDT Message-ID: <vfofdq$12trk$1@dont-email.me> Archive-Name: comp.os.plan9 This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because the moderated newsgroup comp.os.plan9 is not functioning, and has been abandoned by its moderator. This investigation will attempt to verify the reasons for non-function, and may result in the removal of the group or the selection and installation 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: The previous moderator, Dennis Davis, announced his retirement on the newsgroup in <news:alpine.BSO.2.10.1307151422130.30121@bath.ac.uk>, also available from the 9fans mailing list archive at <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T006c21482b03b016-M919ff8a9206abb04947cd41a>. This post also contains technical information about how the newsgroup was administered. comp.os.plan9 stopped receiving posts shortly after the above announcement, and the group currently has no moderation address on file with the ISC. It is therefore clear that the group currently has no moderator and cannot be used. NEWSGROUPS LINE: comp.os.plan9 Plan 9 from Bell Labs. (Moderated) ORIGINAL CHARTER: comp.os.plan9 is a moderated newsgroup for discussion of the Plan 9 operating system from Bell Labs. It's a forum to ask questions and share information about installing, administering, and using Plan 9 systems. The newsgroup will be bidirectionally gatewayed with the Plan 9 mailing list <9fans@cse.psu.edu> ORIGINAL MODERATION POLICY: Icarus Sparry <ccsis@bath.ac.uk> has volunteered to be moderator; Tim Goodwin <tim@pipex.net> has volunteered to be backup moderator. Both are participants on the Plan 9 mailing list. Moderation is intended to keep discussion on charter topics, which we hope will encourage the Plan 9 developers to participate. DISTRIBUTION: comp.os.plan9 news.groups.proposals news.announce.newgroups PROPONENT: Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> 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 <https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Moderator_Vacancy_Investigations>. For more information on moderated newsgroups, including a list of moderation software and considerations for prospective moderators, please see <https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Moderated_Newsgroups>. CHANGE HISTORY: 2024-10-28 Moderator Vacancy Investigation -- Usenet Big-8 Management Board https://www.big-8.org/ board@big-8.org