MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
             moderated group comp.lang.java.announce

This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup comp.lang.java.announce 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.

<comp-lang-java-announce@moderators.isc.org>: host
 moderators.individual.net[130.133.4.7] said: 550 Unrouteable address (in
 reply to RCPT TO command)

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

comp.lang.java.announce    Announcements re the Java System. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.lang.java.announce
comp.lang.misc

CHARTER OF COMP.LANG.JAVA.ANNOUNCE

 This moderated, low-volume group is for Java-related announcements,
 including:

   o  new releases of software
      (compilers, development kits, browsers, etc.)
   o  new publicly accessible applets
   o  events (user group meetings, conferences, etc.)
   o  new packages or announcements of official specification changes.

 This is not a discussion group (posts that are likely to generate
 discussion should have follow-ups set to one of the other Java groups).

 Moderation policy:

 The intent of moderation is to ensure this is a low-noise group, and to
 prevent excessive advertising by any single company.  Posts announcing
 commercial products are acceptable, providing they are kept to a
 reasonable frequency.
 It is not appropriate to post binary classfiles or long source listings
 on any of these groups. Instead, the post should reference a WWW or FTP
 site (short source snippets to demonstrate a particular point or problem
 are fine).

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

comp.lang.java.announce is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 491:38 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 11 Jun 1996.

PROPONENT:

Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@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:

2010-01-19    Probe post
2010-01-24    Moderator Vacancy Investigation

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