Nan:2009-11-01-mvi-comp-emulators-announce

From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.emulators.announce
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:03:12 EST
Message-ID: <hck7bh$c39$1@news.albasani.net>

              MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
              moderated group comp.emulators.announce

This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup comp.emulators.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.

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

comp.emulators.announce	Emulator news, FAQs, announcements. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.emulators.announce

PROPONENT:

Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

CHARTER OF COMP.EMULATORS.ANNOUNCE

  This is a moderated group with announcements about emulators, emulator
  ftp sites, new emulator images, and emulator FAQs.  Emulator
  discussion seems to have a fairly high noise level, so this will be
  useful for important news and coordinating FAQs for newbies.

RATIONALE:

Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.

<comp-emulators-announce@moderators.isc.org>: host
    moderators.individual.net[130.133.4.7] said: 550-Callout verification
    failed: 550-550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not
    exist. Please 550-try 550-550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email
    address for typos or 550-550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at
    550-550 5.1.1 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6596 550
    21si3930726bwz.4 (in reply to RCPT TO command)

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

comp.emulators.announce is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 199:23 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 16 May 1994.

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 RFD 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:

2009-10-29	Probe post bounced
2009-11-01	Moderator Vacancy Investigation