Nan:2007-09-26-comp.sys.mac.announce-announce
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: MODERATOR FOUND: comp.sys.mac.announce
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, comp.sys.mac.misc,
news.groups.proposals, comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.announce
Followup-To: news.groups.proposals
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:11:30 -0500
Organization: http://www.big-8.org/
REPLACEMENT MODERATOR FOUND
comp.sys.mac.announce
The Big-8 Management Board is pleased to announce that Kathy Morgan has
volunteered to robo-moderate the vacant newsgroup comp.sys.mac.announce.
The new moderator will take over the duties on 26 Sep 2007.
HISTORY:
The newsgroup comp.sys.mac.announce was created as part of a
re-organization of the comp.sys.mac (CSM) hierarchy in March 1990 that
created CSM.announce, CSM.apps, CSM.comm, CSM.games, CSM.system, and
CSM.wanted, and renamed comp.sys.mac to CSM.misc.
The comp.sys.mac hierarchy had its origin with the creation of the
unmoderated net.micro.mac in November 1984, and the moderated
mod.computers.mac in October 1985. mod.computers.mac was renamed to
mod.mac in March 1986. During the Great Renaming, net.micro.mac was
renamed to comp.sys.mac and mod.mac was renamed to
comp.sys.mac.digest.
Three groups, CSM.hypercard, CSM.hardware, and CSM.programmer were
added in October 1987, March 1988, and October 1989, respectively.
Frustration with the piecemeal addition of newsgroups led to the
invention of the multi-group re-organization that resulted in creation
of 7 groups, including CSM.announce in March 1990.
Additional hierarchy changes include:
CSM.datatbases created in January 1992.
CSM.advocacy created in September 1992.
CSM.oop.macapp3 and CSM.oop.misc created in November 1992.
CSM.oop.tcl in April 1993.
CSM.portables created in April 1993.
CSM.scitech created in May 1993.
CSM.graphics created in November 1993.
CSM.programmer.codewarrior created in August 1994.
CSM.programmer (CSMP) split into CSMP.help, CSMP.info, CSMP.misc,
and CSMP.tools in November 1994.
CSM.hardware (CSMH) split into CSMH.misc, CSMH.storage, and
CSMH.video, and CSM.printing in April 1995.
CSM.games (CSMG) split into CSMG.action, CSMG.adventure,
CSMG.announce, CSMG.flight-sim, CSMG.marketplace, CSMG.misc, and
CSMG.strategic in May 1995.
CSM.programmer.games created in October 1995.
CSM.oop.powerplant in March 1996.
>From the time of its creation in March 1990 until late 1995,
comp.sys.mac.announce had roughly 5 to 10 approved articles per month.
Beginning in late 1995, approvals became increasingly infrequent, with
only a total of 5 approvals from 1998 to 2000. The last approval was
in March 2000.
CHARTER:
The newsgroup line is:
comp.sys.mac.announce Important notices for Macintosh users.
The charter (extracted from the CFV):
Designed to be a low-volume, high-content group for distribution of
information, regular postings (like the "where to find...", and
"introduction to comp.sys.mac" documents, postings like virus alerts
and other forms of information (product announcements? press
releases?) to be determined.
MODERATION POLICY: comp.sys.mac.announce
No mod_policy offered
MODERATOR INFO: comp.sys.mac.announce
Moderator: Kathy Morgan <kmorgan@big-8.org>
Article Submissions: comp-sys-mac-announce@robomod.net
Administrative Contact: comp-sys-mac-announce-moderator@robomod.net
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups (moderated)
news.groups.proposals (moderated)
comp.sys.mac.announce (moderated)
comp.sys.mac.misc
comp.sys.mac.apps
The proponent will also post pointers to:
comp.sys.mac.comm
comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
comp.sys.mac.hardware.video
comp.sys.mac.portables
comp.sys.mac.printing
comp.sys.mac.programmer.help
comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc
comp.sys.mac.system
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2007-04-27 1st RFD
2007-06-12 Moderator Vacancy Announcement
2007-09-26 Moderator Replaced
