Nan:2011-05-29-mvi-sci.virtual-worlds
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: sci.virtual-worlds
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 09:22:48 EDT
Message-ID: <94ev9iFeu2U2@mid.individual.net>
MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
moderated group sci.virtual-worlds
This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup sci.virtual-worlds 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
installation 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.
NEWSGROUPS LINE:
sci.virtual-worlds Virtual Reality - technology and culture. (Moderated)
RATIONALE:
Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces. The last meaningful
traffic in the newsgroup is from 2001.
DISTRIBUTION:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
sci.virtual-worlds
sci.misc
CHARTER: No charter is available at ftp.isc.org.
HISTORY OF THE GROUP: The newsgroup was active from September 1990
until July 2001. The last meaningful traffic was in late 2001.
PROPONENT: Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com>
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:
29 May 2011: Moderator Vacancy Investigation
