Moderator Vacancy Investigation: soc.politics.anti-fascism
Steve Bonine
moderated group soc.politics.anti-fascism
This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup soc.politics.anti-fascism 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:
soc.politics.anti-fascism The politics of fighting fascism. (Moderated)
RATIONALE:
Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.
DISTRIBUTION:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
soc.politics.anti-fascism
CHARTER
HISTORY OF THE GROUP:
The newsgroup was created 27 February 1998 along with
misc.activism.anti-fascism.announce and misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics.
On 10 July 2007 there was an RFD to remove *.anti-fascism.* that was not
resolved. On 6 February 2010 there were MVIs for
misc.anti-fascism.announce and misc.anti-fascism.announce; these groups
were removed on 19 March 2010.
There has never been significant activity in the newsgroup with a
maximum of six articles in the month of May 2005 and no activity for
long periods.
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:
17 June 2011: Moderator Vacancy Investigation