Nan:2010-05-17-lcc-comp.os.os2.moderated

From: Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RFD: comp.os.os2.moderated moderated (remove) LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 19:03:40 EDT
Message-ID: <hssgpb$29h$1@news.albasani.net>

              REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
              moderated group comp.os.os2.moderated

This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove moderated
newsgroup comp.os.os2.moderated.

RATIONALE:

Probe posts showed no result. According to Google's archive the last
regular post was approved on 2006-09-26.

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

comp.os.os2.moderated	OS/2 usage tips, info, discussion. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.os.os2.moderated
comp.os.os2.misc

CHARTER OF COMP.OS.OS2.MODERATED

This newsgroup will provide a forum for moderated discussion of usage
tips, information, and issues related to the OS/2 operating system.
Moderators will eliminate

   * All crossposts
   * Posts that contain no information regarding the use of OS/2.
   * Patently inflammatory posts

No attempt will be made to eliminate information that is incorrect, to
evaluate whether a particular post is "interesting enough", or to
censor discussions based on the opinions expressed.  The only
requirement will be that the discussion continue to relate to OS/2 and
that it continue to be informative.  The role of the moderators will
be to create a newsgroup with civil and informative discussion
threads.

There will be a team of at least two, and not more than five,
moderators.  Each moderator will forward each rejected post to one of
the other moderators, who will, at their option, either discard it or
return it to the poster.  The identity of the moderators will be
known, but the moderator who rejected a particular post will not be
revealed.

The moderator team will, by vote, determine whether to redirect posts
or to request that the submitter resubmit the posts to the proper
newsgroup.  The policy regarding redirection may be changed at any
time and may be temporarily changed for any reason.

Anyone may post a "call for votes" in an effort to join the moderator
team.  Not more than once per quarter, a slate of candidates will be
posted in response, which lists the current moderators and the new
candidates (identified as such).  If a candidate receives at least 100
votes and receives more votes than an incumbant, then the candidate
will replace the incumbant.  If there are less than five moderators,
the moderators will decide, by vote, whether to post a "call for
votes" or to just vote on the candidate themselves.  The coordinator
will break ties.

Moderators will choose, by vote, a coordinator.  This coordinator may,
but need not, be a moderator.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

comp.os.os2.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 563:19 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 24 Jun 1996.

PROPONENT:

Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

PROCEDURE:

Those who wish to comment on this request to remove this newsgroup 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.

In the course of the removal process four formal announcements are posted
(MVI, 1st RFD, 2nd RFD, and LCC), each taking two weeks. At the end of the
process the B8MB will vote on the issue.

Available options for comp.os.os2.moderated are:
- leave the group as it is
- remove the group

For more information on the MVI process, please see 

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:mvi

CHANGE HISTORY:

2009-11-24	First probe post
2010-04-04	Moderator Vacancy Investigation
2010-04-19	1st RFD
2010-05-03	2nd RFD
2010-05-17	LCC