Nan:Ethiopia-rfd

From: skirv@big-8.org (Tim Skirvin)
Subject: RFD: unmoderate or remove soc.culture.ethiopia.moderated
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups,
 soc.culture.ethiopia.moderated
Followup-To: news.groups
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:22:24 -0700
Reply-To: tskirvin@killfile.org

                     REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
          unmoderate or remove soc.culture.ethiopia.moderated

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to either unmoderate or
remove the moderated Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.ethiopia.moderated.

RATIONALE: soc.culture.ethiopia.moderated

I agreed to moderate and admin this group after being asked by the
person responsible for it after the hosting arrangements changed. I
set it up on Russ' box around 1999 I think, with his permission. This
has never been a very successful group however and the person who
asked me to help has been difficult to contact even in the early
days. There actually hasn't been more than a handful of active posts
in all that time and the only posts are an automated mailing list
which hasn't had any content for some time and autoposted spam. I
have removed the mailing list from the group in the hope that zero
posts will trigger the old organiser to contact me but this is most
definitely a dead group.

EXISTING CHARTER: soc.culture.ethiopia.moderated

(None listed.)

END CHARTER.


PROCEDURE:

As this is fairly untested ground, we have decided to discuss the proposal
publicly before anything is changed.  Please discuss this proposal in
news.groups.


DISTRIBUTION:

This RFD has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups
  soc.culture.ethiopia.moderated

PROPONENT: 

Martin Tierney - Moderator, soc.culture.ethiopia.moderated


CHANGE HISTORY:

2006-05-22   RFD formatted by Tim Skirvin.
2006-05-01   Original e-mail received by B8MB.