Nan:2010-01-23-mvi-misc.industry.safety.personal
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at> Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: misc.industry.safety.personal Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:40:22 EST Message-ID: <hjg6t5$7dt$1@news.albasani.net> MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI) moderated group misc.industry.safety.personal This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because moderated newsgroup misc.industry.safety.personal 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. <misc-industry-safety-personal@moderators.isc.org>: host moderators.individual.net[130.133.4.7] said: 550-Callout verification failed: 550 550 <mispng@usa.net>... User not known (in reply to RCPT TO command) NEWSGROUPS LINE: misc.industry.safety.personal Personal protective equipment. (Moderated) DISTRIBUTION: news.announce.newgroups news.groups.proposals misc.industry.safety.personal CHARTER OF MISC.INDUSTRY.SAFETY.PERSONAL For discussion of all aspects of personal protective equipment (ppe), defined as any device(s) worn or held by the user in order to provide him (her) protection whilst performing the given task. It is open especially, but not exclusively, to manufacturers, distributors, testing and certifying organisations, government departments, safety officers and users of ppe, including professional associations of the foregoing. Advertising of products and services directly related to ppe is allowed, but is limited to 50 words of text in any posting, plus references to contact details, addresses, websites etc. Binaries are not permitted. The group will be moderated, in order to prevent articles not conforming to the charter from being posted. HISTORY OF THE GROUP: misc.industry.safety.personal is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 241:16 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 12 Mar 1997. 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: 2010-01-17 Probe post 2010-01-24 Moderator Vacancy Investigation