Nan:2010-03-07-mvi-soc.religion.eastern

From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: soc.religion.eastern
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:50:41 EST
Message-ID: <hn0unn$f3i$1@news.albasani.net>

              MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
              moderated group soc.religion.eastern

This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup soc.religion.eastern 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:

A probe post to this group resulted in a bounce.

  toshi@alumni.caltech.edu
    (generated from soc-religion-eastern@moderators.isc.org)
    SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<toshi@alumni.caltech.edu>:
    host posteaux1.caltech.edu [131.215.239.119]:
    550 5.7.1 <toshi@alumni.caltech.edu>: Recipient address rejected:
    Message rejected due to: SPF fail - not authorized.
    Only mail.alumni.caltech.edu is authorized to send mail with
    @alumni.caltech.edu FROM: addresses

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

soc.religion.eastern	Discussions of Eastern religions. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
soc.religion.eastern
soc.misc

CHARTER OF SOC.RELIGION.EASTERN

n/a

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

The first recorded newgroup control is dated 1991-05-23.
It contained a tagline but no charter.

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:

2010-02-27	Probe post
2010-03-07	Moderator Vacancy Investigation