This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup comp.sys.mac.digest 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.
dig...@info-mac.org
(generated from comp-sys-...@moderators.isc.org)
SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<dig...@info-mac.org>:
host mx2.sub2.homie.mail.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.87]:
550 5.1.1 <dig...@info-mac.org>: Recipient address rejected:
User unknown in virtual alias table
NEWSGROUPS LINE:
comp.sys.mac.digest Apple Macintosh: info&uses, but no programs. (Moderated)
DISTRIBUTION:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.sys.mac.digest
CHARTER OF COMP.SYS.MAC.DIGEST
Group submission address: dig...@info-mac.org
Moderator contact address: gor...@info-mac.org (Gordon Watts)
HISTORY OF THE GROUP:
comp.sys.mac.digest is a moderated newsgroup which predates the
news.announce.newgroups voting process.
Oldest archived control message is dated 1991-05-23.
PROPONENT:
Alexander Bartolich <alexander...@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:
2009-10-29 Probe post bounced
2009-11-29 Moderator Vacancy Investigation
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