Nan:2009-11-28-mvi-comp-unix-bsd-freebsd-announce

From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:49:45 EST
Message-ID: <hesgho$ms1$1@news.albasani.net>


              MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
              moderated group comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce

This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.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:

Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.

<comp-unix-bsd-freebsd-announce@moderators.isc.org>: host
    moderators.switch.ch[130.59.10.10] said: 550 Unrouteable address (in reply
    to RCPT TO command)

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce	Announcements pertaining to FreeBSD. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce

CHARTER OF COMP.UNIX.BSD.FREEBSD.ANNOUNCE

        Moderated by Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>

        This newsgroup is for announcements relating to the FreeBSD
        operating system. Things appropriate for the .announce group
        would include announcements of new versions of FreeBSD,
        announcements of major software releases (both commercial
        and freely redistributable) for FreeBSD (e.g. new version of
        X11 for FreeBSD), announcements of fixes for major bugs, and
        the like.  FAQs relating to FreeBSD should also be cross-posted
        to this group.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote
for creation by 338:69 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 22 Feb 1995.

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:

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