Nan:2010-10-09-result-rec.video.professional
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RESULT: rec.video.professional will be removed
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:26:27 EDT
Message-ID: <i8qerr$bg6$1@news.albasani.net>
RESULT
rec.video.professional will be removed
The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 2010-10-02 initiated a five-day
period for final comments. Following this comment period, the Big-8
Management Board has decided by consensus to remove moderated group
rec.video.professional.
RATIONALE:
According to Google's archive the last regular post was approved on
2003-01-22. A probe message resulted in a bounce.
<rec-video-professional@moderators.isc.org>: host
moderators.switch.ch[130.59.1.10] said: 550 all relevant MX records
point to non-existent hosts (in reply to RCPT TO command)
Richard Crowley says that the newsgroup went through more than one
round of setting up new moderation, but ultimately failed each time.
>Message-ID: <8cavquFblcU1@mid.individual.net>
NEWSGROUPS LINE:
rec.video.professional Professional video, technical and artistic. (Moderated)
DISTRIBUTION:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
rec.video.professional
rec.video
CHARTER OF REC.VIDEO.PROFESSIONAL
This would be a general newsgroup dealing with specific technical and
artistic issues in professional video, television and broadcasting.
Topics would include:
+ policy (eg. federal regulations passed down from the Federal
Communications Commission) and operation (eg. day-to-day physical
plant) of broadcast, production and post production facilities.
+ announcements of events of interest to the video, television and
broadcasting community such as conferences and conventions.
+ ENG (Electronic News Gathering) equipment specifications.
+ New ENG (Electronic News Gathering) technology such as disk-based
(as opposed to tape-based cameras).
+ ENG (Electronic News Gathering) videotape formats.
+ Linear and nonlinear editing.
+ Special Effect design and creation.
+ Problem solving and Trouble Shooting.
+ Production artistry.
+ Single camera productions.
+ Multiple camera productions.
+ In-Studio productions.
+ Remote (out of studio) productions.
HISTORY OF THE GROUP:
rec.video.professional is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 201:14 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 14 Aug 1995.
PROPONENT:
Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2010-05-20 Probe post
2010-08-09 Moderator Vacancy Investigation
2010-08-23 1st RFD
2010-09-06 2nd RFD
2010-10-02 LCC
2010-10-09 RESULT
