Moderator Vacancy Announcement: comp.archives.ms-windows.announce
Alexander Bartolich
moderated group comp.archives.ms-windows.announce
This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Announcement (MVA), initiated after the
moderator of the above-listed moderated newsgroups has been found to be
absent. The goal of this process is to find a new moderator for the group.
RATIONALE:
The moderators of comp.archives.msdos.announce, Keith Petersen and Timo
Salmi, have resigned.
NEWSGROUPS LINE:
comp.archives.ms-windows.announce Announcements about Windows archives. (Moderated)
DISTRIBUTION:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.archives.ms-windows.announce
CHARTER OF COMP.ARCHIVES.MS-WINDOWS.ANNOUNCE
This moderated newsgroup is for the upload announcements and related
information from Microsoft Windows archive sites (also called FTP
sites) with Public Domain, Freeware and Shareware material. The
subjects include the upload announcements via the Microsoft Windows
FTP site moderators, the Microsoft Windows sites' periodical
summaries, potential policy statements and downtime warnings, and the
Microsoft Windows FTP site moderators' reports about the connectivity
problems with their archive sites. Unix announcements conform only if
they directly relate to transferring or handling the Microsoft Windows
material from the Microsoft Windows FTP sites. 16-bit programs, 32-bit
programs, programs for Windows 95 and Windows NT are all on-topic.
The purpose of comp.archives.ms-windows.announce is to be a ONE-WAY
channel for Microsoft Windows upload announcements which the
moderators handle, and other one-way, occasional information relating
to Microsoft Windows archive sites. The moderators will therefore not
be handling users' discussion material, questions, and replies. The
unmoderated comp.archives.ms-windows.discuss newsgroup (see below)
will cover that aspect.
Note that while the submission address goes to SimTel, articles from
all major FTP servers are welcome, just as in the existing
comp.archives.msdos.
The comp.archives.msdos hierarchy handles DOS programs.
HISTORY OF THE GROUP:
comp.archives.ms-windows.announce is a moderated newsgroup which passed its
vote for creation by 263:30 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on
PROPONENT:
Alexander Bartolich <alexander...@gmx.at>
PROCEDURE:
Those who wish to comment on this moderator vacancy announcement 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.
For more information on the MVA process, please see
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:mvi
CHANGE HISTORY:
2009-10-29 Probe post
2009-10-30 Resignation sent in response
2009-11-01 Moderator Vacancy Announcement
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