Moderator Vacancy Investigation: sci.med.aids
Steve Bonine
moderated group sci.med.aids
This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup sci.med.aids 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
installation 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.
NEWSGROUPS LINE:
sci.med.aids AIDS: treatment, pathology/biology of HIV, prevention.
(Moderated)
RATIONALE:
Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces. The last on-topic
article dates from 2004.
DISTRIBUTION:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
sci.med.aids
sci.med
CHARTER: Not available.
HISTORY OF THE GROUP: There is no information on the newsgroup at the
ISC archive. The group was active from mid-1989 until early 2004.
PROPONENT: Steve Bonine <s...@pobox.com>
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/wiki/Moderator_Vacancy_Investigations
CHANGE HISTORY:
5 June 2011: Moderator Vacancy Investigation