Nan:2024-09-27-mf-news.announce.newusers

Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.announce.newusers, news.groups.proposals, news.newusers.questions Subject: MODERATOR FOUND: news.announce.newusers Followup-To: news.groups.proposals Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:38:19 EDT Organization: Usenet Big-8 Management Board Message-ID: <MPG.4160e195d535e0619896e5@news.eternal-september.org> Archive-Name: news.announce.newusers

REPLACEMENT MODERATOR FOUND news.announce.newusers

The Big-8 Management Board is pleased to announce that it has taken on the moderation duties for news.announce.newusers, returning the group to service after a considerable hiatus.

The previous moderator, Kathy Morgan, lost access to the group's moderation address when the server at albasani.net suffered a failure in early 2020, and the group has been dormant since then. In email communication with the Board, Kathy later expressed a wish to retire from moderation duties.

The Board has therefore volunteered to moderate news.announce.newusers, along with its companion group news.newusers.questions. While the Board's core responsibility is to maintain the roster of groups in the Big 8 hierarchies, it is also in keeping with the ethos of the Board to promote and support the Big 8 and Usenet in general. As such, the Board considers it worthwhile to ensure that these newsgroups and their FAQs remain available for the benefit of newcomers to Usenet.

MODERATOR INFO: news.announce.newusers

Moderator: Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> Article submission address: <newusers@nan.users.panix.com> Moderation team contact: <newusers-request@nan.users.panix.com>

CHARTER AND MODERATION POLICY OF NEWS.ANNOUNCE.NEWUSERS:

There is no charter on file for news.announce.newusers at https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/news/.

The newsgroups line for the group is:

news.announce.newusers  Explanatory postings for new users. (Moderated)

The group was created in the mid-1980s as part of the "Great Renaming". It functions as a "read-only" group, carrying regular informational announcements for newcomers to Usenet.

Articles sent to the group *will not be approved*. Questions about Usenet should be posted to news.newusers.questions instead, and any comments or suggestions regarding the regular informational postings should be emailed to the moderation team's contact address above.

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups news.announce.newusers news.groups.proposals news.newusers.questions

CHANGE HISTORY:

2024-09-27 Announcement

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