Nan:2009-11-28-mvi-comp-sys-psion-announce

From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.sys.psion.announce
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:49:02 EST
Message-ID: <hesghh$mri$1@news.albasani.net>


              MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
              moderated group comp.sys.psion.announce

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

cspa-mod@lspace.org
  (generated from comp-sys-psion-announce@moderators.isc.org)
  SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<cspa-mod@lspace.org>:
  host morrigan.tuatha.org [193.1.193.138]: 550 <cspa-mod@lspace.org>:
  Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

comp.sys.psion.announce	Announcements of Psion related products. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.sys.psion.announce

CHARTER OF COMP.SYS.PSION.ANNOUNCE

The purpose of this newsgroup is double: on one hand, be a general
announcement group for all kinds of Psion hardware / software and on
the other hand, be a general introduction group for Psion newcomers
as the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) will be posted only to this
group.

Moderation Policy:

The group will be moderated because it should be essentially
advertisement free and contain only important information. The
proposed moderator is Michael L. Kaufman.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

comp.sys.psion.announce is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 218:31 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 14 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:

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