Nan:2010-01-09-MVI-comp-protocols-kermit-announce

From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.protocols.kermit.announce
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 19:56:24 EST
Message-ID: <hib3t7$34k$1@news.albasani.net>


              MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
              moderated group comp.protocols.kermit.announce

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

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

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

comp.protocols.kermit.announce	Kermit announcements. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.protocols.kermit.announce

CHARTER OF COMP.PROTOCOLS.KERMIT.ANNOUNCE

  comp.protocols.kermit.announce will be used for announcements, primarily in
  the form of the Kermit Digest, just as comp.protocols.kermit was used in
  the past.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

comp.protocols.kermit.announce is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote
for creation by 239:24 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 7 Sep 1994.

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	First probe post
2010-01-10	Moderator Vacancy Investigation