Nan:2007-04-30-comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce-annouce

From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: MODERATOR FOUND: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure, news.announce.newgroups,
 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical, news.groups.proposals,
 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce
Followup-To: news.groups.proposals
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:52:48 -0500
Organization: http://www.big-8.org/

                      REPLACEMENT MODERATOR FOUND
                     comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce

The Big-8 Management Board is pleased to announce that Gregg Seelhoff has
volunteered to moderate the newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce. 

The new moderator will take over the duties on 04 May 2007.


HISTORY: 

The newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce was created in April 1993
as part of a reorganization of the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.* (CSIPG)
hierarchy, that saw creation of CSIPG.announce, CSIPG.action,
CSIPG.adventure, CSIPG.flight-sim, CSIPG.rpg, CSIPG.strategic, and
CSIPG.misc (rename of comp.sys.ibm.pc.games).  Subsequently, the
following groups in the hierarchy were created CSIPG.marketplace,
CSIPG.naval, CSIPG.space-sim, CSIPG.sports, and CSIPG.war-historical.

Approvals averaged one to two approvals per day for most of the active
period of the group (this is an average rate, since approvals were
often batches).  There was an interruption of regular approvals from
May 1996 to November 1996, and a stoppage beginning in August 1998
until the present.  During the initial interruption, and continuing
until January 2000, there were weekly posts of "Internet PC Game
Charts".  There have been no approvals of any sort since January 2000.

Some web links of note:

 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce/about
 ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/comp/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce


CHARTER:

This newsgroup is for announcements that are useful to the entire PC computer
gaming population, including but not limited to new release announcements,
software publisher news, bug information, and PC game reviews.  Followups
will be directed to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc, or another appropriate
subgroup at the moderator's discretion.

MODERATION POLICY: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce

comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce is a human-moderated newsgroup.  Messages will
be hand-approved by the moderator based on the above charter.


MODERATOR INFO: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce

Moderator:                Gregg Seelhoff <seelhoff@sophsoft.com>

Article Submissions:      csipga@sophsoft.com
Administrative Contact:   moderator@sophsoft.com


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups.proposals
  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce
  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical
  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure

The proponent will also post pointers to:

  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim
  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.naval
  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg
  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim
  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2007-04-04     1st RFD
2007-04-17     2nd RFD/LCC
2007-04-23     New Moderator Found