Nan:2011-05-29-mvi-soc.culture.indian.info

From: Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation:  soc.culture.indian.info
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 09:21:37 EDT
Message-ID: <94ev8gFeu2U1@mid.individual.net>

                   MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
                  moderated group soc.culture.indian.info

This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because 
moderated newsgroup soc.culture.indian.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 
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:
soc.culture.indian.info Info group for soc.culture.indian, etc. (Moderated)

RATIONALE:

Probe posts to this group resulted in no response.  The last meaningful 
traffic was in August 2001.

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
soc.culture.indian.info
soc.culture.indian

CHARTER

* Articles considered to be relevant to this group 
(soc.culture.indian.info) include informational postings from:
    alt.culture.karnataka
    soc.culture.indian.telugu
    alt.culture.kerala
    soc.culture.tamil
    alt.culture.us.asian-indian
    soc.culture.indian

  * All postings will be crossposted which means that essentially, they 
have to be pertinent to some group under the hierarchy.

* No discussions are allowed. But all summaries resulting from a 
discussion (like travel tips etc.) are allowed.

* All postings will be clearly categorised on the subject line.

* Reasoning for this group similar to rec.radio.info and rec.music.info.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:  The newsgroup passed its vote on 13 December 
1993.  It saw light activity from December 1993 until mid-1999.

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