Nan:2010-08-09-mvi-rec.music.beatles.info

From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: rec.music.beatles.info
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 02:24:05 EDT
Message-ID: <i3o4qf$tnj$1@news.albasani.net>

              MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
              moderated group rec.music.beatles.info

This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup rec.music.beatles.info 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:

According to Google's archive the last regular post was approved on
2005-06-17. A probe message resulted in a bounce.

  rmb-info@evolution.seltaeb.net
    (generated from rec-music-beatles-info@moderators.isc.org)
    SMTP error from remote mail server after
    RCPT TO:<rmb-info@evolution.seltaeb.net>:
    host evolution.seltaeb.net [75.148.160.113]:
    450 <rmb-info@evolution.seltaeb.net>: User unknown in local
    recipient table: retry timeout exceeded

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

rec.music.beatles.info	Latest press notes about the Beatles. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
rec.music.beatles.info
rec.music.beatles

CHARTER OF REC.MUSIC.BEATLES.INFO

Rec.music.beatles.info is a moderated group of low traffic, carrying
press reports and news releases relating to the Beatles' music and the
artists' lives. Information about new audio and video releases, as
well as book and article publication, will be found here.

Articles posted to rec.music.beatles.info will be automatically
crossposted to rec.music.beatles (unmoderated) for discussion.

Moderation policy:

This group will be moderated by committee.  Articles rejected from
this forum will be returned to the writer with suggestions to submit
to rec.music.beatles.moderated (if appropriate) or to
rec.music.beatles.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

rec.music.beatles.info is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 258:34 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 31 Oct 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/wiki/Moderator_Vacancy_Investigations

CHANGE HISTORY:

2010-05-20	Probe post
2010-08-09	Moderator Vacancy Investigation