Nan:2010-10-09-result-rec.video.professional

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