misc.transport.air-industry.cargo - Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI)
NAN Team
Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI)
misc.transport.air-industry.cargo
This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
the moderated newsgroup misc.transport.air-industry.cargo is not functioning,
and may have been abandoned by its moderator. This investigation will
attempt to verify the reasons for non-function, and may result in the
removal of the group, the unmoderation of the group, or the selection
and installation of a new moderator.
To discuss the issues affecting the group, to propose a new moderator,
or to provide information regarding the current moderator, please respond
to this thread in the news.groups newsgroup. If you are interested in
the continued existence of this newsgroup, please also indicate that
interest in the news.groups newsgroup.
If you *are* the current moderator, and retain an interest in the group,
please reply to this announcement immediately. If the current moderator
appears and re-asserts control of the group, the investigation may be
halted entirely, or shifted to discussion of technical problems which
may have adversely affected the functioning of the group.
Unless the current moderator appears and expresses an interest in
continuing, the presumption of this investigation is that a problem
exists, and that a change is needed. The MVI procedure is initiated only
when such a presumption exists, formed due to both absence of postings
in the group and either absence of response from the moderator or an
explicit statement that the group is abandoned or should be removed.
Pending the confirmation of a vacancy, and the successful completion of
these proceedings, a new moderator may be installed on a probationary
basis at the discretion of the news.announce.newgroups moderation team.
Note that the removal of the group at the conclusion of the MVI is also
a strong possibility. In many cases, moderators abandon groups because
no one is interested in using them.
STATUS: misc.transport.air-industry.cargo
The status with regard to finding a new moderator is as follows:
Jim Riley writes concerning the misc.transport.air-industry.*
groups:
"These were intended to provide a place of discussion outside
rec.aviation.*."
If such a distinction is to be maintained, the groups might need active
moderators. No particular interest was expressed in the cargo group, but
its MVI is being conducted along with the parent group for convenience.
END STATUS.
This is a preliminary procedure. It will run for a minimum of 21 days,
at which point a decision will hopefully be reached. It is possible
that the MVI period will be extended at that time.
Probationary moderators may be removed by the NAN Team. Moderators
installed by vote during a RFD/CFV, or given the group by an active
previous moderator installed by vote (including in a chain from such a
moderator), are not subject to probation.
Distribution:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
misc.transport.air-industry.cargo
rec.aviation.announce
rec.aviation.misc
You may post pointers to this investigation announcement to other
interested newsgroups. However, all discussion should appear in
news.groups.
Note: The majority of this post is a form letter, indicating an MVI
procedure for the group misc.transport.air-industry.cargo. The primary exception
is the STATUS paragraph.
-- NAN Team
NAN Team
tolerantly and permissively that power may be exercised. It is
important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness (see
paragraph 72).
95. It is said that we live in a free society because we have a
certain number of constitutionally guaranteed rights. But these are
not as important as they seem. The degree of personal freedom that
exists in a society is determined more by the economic and
technological structure of the society than by its laws or its form of
government. [16] Most of the Indian nations of New England were
monarchies, and many of the cities of the Italian Renaissance were
controlled by dictators. But in reading about these societies one gets
the impression that they allowed far more personal freedom than out
society does. In part this was because they lacked efficient
mechanisms for enforcing the ruler's will: There were no modern,
well-organized police forces, no rapid long-distance communications,
no surveillance cameras, no dossiers of information about the lives of
average citizens. Hence it was relatively easy to evade control.
96. As for our constitutional rights, consider for example that of
freedom of the press. We certainly don't mean to knock that right: it
is very important tool for limiting concentration of political power
and for keeping those who do have political power in line by publicly
exposing any misbehavior on their part. But freedom of the press is of
very little use to the average citizen as an individ