RESULT: news.admin.net-abuse.* reorganization
Big-8 Management Board
reorganization of news.admin.net-abuse.*
The Big-8 Management Board has decided by consensus to follow the
recommendations of the existing moderator, to wit:
news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins will be removed on 11 Aug 2009.
news.admin.net-abuse.policy will be moderated by Kathy Morgan
<kmo...@aptalaska.net>. The transfer will complete on 11 Aug 2009.
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings will be removed on 11 Aug 2009.
NEWSGROUPS:
news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins Group will be removed.
news.admin.net-abuse.policy Moderator will become Kathy Morgan.
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings Group will be removed.
RATIONALE:
Tim Skirvin wishes to shortly step down as the moderator of most of the
news.admin.net-abuse.* moderated groups. The groups are still well-used
(.sightings, .bulletins) or at least useful (.policy), but somebody else
needs take care of them (and, likely, work to revitalize them). A
reorganization may also make sense, but he is not the one to bring
about these changes.
Please note that news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting is not affected by this
proposal.
HISTORY:
An inquiry into potential new moderators of NANAP and NANAS was posted
to news.admin.net-abuse.policy several days ago. NANAB was added to the
list after discussions with Dave Barr, its moderator-of-record.
All of these groups were created as part of the 1996 news.admin.net-abuse.*
reorganization. They were intended to allow for regular/automated
announcements about action taken against net-abuse (.bulletins), moderated
discussion of net-abuse topics (.policy), and searchable reports of
network abuse (.sightings).
A few relevant links:
http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins/about
http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.sightings/about
http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.policy/about
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/news/news.admin.net-abuse-reorg
PROCEDURE:
A Moderator Vacancy Announcement was posted on 27 April 2009. This process is documented here:
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:mvi
The Board plans to appoint Kathy Morgan as new moderator for news.admin.net-abuse.policy. Discussion in that group showed that
users find the other groups useful but no acceptable candidates volunteered for the other groups so the Board plans to remove
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings and news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins entirely.
The followup header of this post has been set to news.groups.proposals.
For more information on the Big-8 Management Board, please see:
CHARTER:
The current charters for the group are at:
http://wiki.killfile.org/projects/usenet/nana/
The relevant first paragraph of each group:
news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins is a moderated forum for bulletins
of action taken against net abuse. Appropriate subjects include
cancellation notices (EMP/ECP, spew, binary, and others), status
reports from individual systems concerning action taken against
abusers, results of tracking campaigns, "rogue site" declarations, and
the like.
news.admin.net-abuse.policy is a moderated forum for discussion of
policy and site-management issues related to net abuse. Possible
topics include Acceptable Use Policies, what actions should be taken
against abusers, discussion of third-party cancel messages, possible
actions against abusive sites such as rogue site declarations,
discussion of what is and is not net abuse, and so forth.
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings is a forum for reports of sightings
of net abuse. It is a robomoderated forum, allowing only properly
formatted posts. Followups are required to be set strictly out of the
group and into the appropriate group in the news.admin.net-abuse.*
hierarchy.
PROPONENT:
Tim Skirvin <tski...@killfile.org>
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups (moderated)
news.groups.proposals (moderated)
news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins (moderated)
news.admin.net-abuse.policy (moderated)
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings (moderated)
CHANGE HISTORY:
2009-04-26 Moderator Vacancy Announcement
2009-08-05 Result Announcement