Nan:2009-11-01-mvi-comp-compression-research

From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.compression.research
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:03:20 EST
Message-ID: <hck7ba$c2r$1@news.albasani.net>

              MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
              moderated group comp.compression.research

This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup comp.compression.research 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.

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

comp.compression.research	Discussions about data compression research. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.compression.research

PROPONENT:

Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

CHARTER OF COMP.COMPRESSION.RESEARCH

comp.compression.research is for discussion about data compression research.

RATIONALE:

Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.

<comp-compression-research@moderators.isc.org>: host
    moderators.switch.ch[130.59.10.10] said: 550 Unrouteable address
    (in reply to RCPT TO command)

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

Unmoderated group comp.compression.research passed its vote for creation
by 312:10 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 19 Jun 1992.

The status was changed to moderated after it passed vote for moderation
by 192:27 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 5 Oct 1993.

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 RFD 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:

2009-10-29	Probe post bounced
2009-11-01	Moderator Vacancy Investigation