Nan:2010-05-18-mvi-comp.sys.sgi.announce

From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.sys.sgi.announce
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 01:05:11 EDT
Message-ID: <hssnhm$bp1$1@news.albasani.net>

              MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
              moderated group comp.sys.sgi.announce

This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup comp.sys.sgi.announce 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 published on
2009-11-14. The last regular non-periodical post, however, was approved
2008-04-10. Probe messages showed no result.

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

comp.sys.sgi.announce	Announcements for the SGI community. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.sys.sgi.announce
comp.sys.sgi.misc

CHARTER OF COMP.SYS.SGI.ANNOUNCE

  announce      general announcements (conferences, user groups, ftp
                archives, etc)

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

comp.sys.sgi.announce is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 181:29 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 4 Nov 1992.

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/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:mvi

CHANGE HISTORY:

2009-11-24	First probe post
2010-05-18	Moderator Vacancy Investigation