Folks, most especially members of the moderation team,

There's currently a UseNet wide clean-up project going on to remove or
repair any moderated newsgroup that is broken. The project as reached
an assortment of newsgroups under rec.arts and it has reached
rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info as well as similar Doctor Who and Star
Trek groups. Anyone interested should subscribe to
news.annouce.newgroups and anyone who might want to join the
discussion should subscribe to news.groups.proposals*.

I have top posted this to include the entire post about it below
without any alterations. Neither RASTB5 nor RASTB5.mod was included in
the distribution to keep the list getting the announcement down to 4
groups - Many NSPs drop any message posted to 5+ groups and many users
filter based on number of groups.

Is RASTB5.info still needed?  If members of the original moderation team
are around they can join the discussion and ask for the group to be
deleted if the group will no longer be used.

If members of the RASTB5.mod moderation team wish to take over
RASTB45.info as well I'm sure that would not be a problem either.  Among
moderated newsgroups RASTB5.mod has the highest reputation.

Reading the charter it describes much of the best quality traffic here
on RASTB5.mod so my first guess is to go ahead and let RASTB5.info go
away.  It's current status bounces any submission.

* I am a member of the news.groups.proposals moderation team as well as
a long term Babylon5 fan so my bias is I want lots of folks to subscribe
to NGP to join the discussion and then later to stay active on the group
helping out newsgroups in general.  UseNet works on volunteers.

Doug Freyburger 

Alexander Bartolich wrote:
>
>               MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
>               moderated group rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info
>
> This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
> moderated newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info 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:
>
> According to Google's archive the last regular post was approved on
> 2004-02-16. A probe message resulted in a bounce.
>
> : host
>   moderators.switch.ch[130.59.1.10] said: 550 Unrouteable address
>   (in reply to RCPT TO command)
>
> NEWSGROUPS LINE:
>
> rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info	Announcements about TV show _Babylon 5_.
(Moderated)
>
> DISTRIBUTION:
>
> news.announce.newgroups
> news.groups.proposals
> rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info
> rec.arts.sf.misc
>
> CHARTER OF REC.ARTS.SF.TV.BABYLON5.INFO
>
> The purpose of this group is to provide an uncluttered resource of
> information and news pertaining to the television program _Babylon 5_.
> rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info is a moderated newsgroup, which means
> that all articles must be submitted to the moderator for approval
> before they will be posted.  Articles appearing in this newsgroup
> should generally fall into one of the following categories:
>
>    1) Official press releases and notices pointing to coverage
>       of _Babylon 5_ in the media (but copies of copyrighted
>       material *only* with expressed permission), and announcements
>       of B5-related events such as conventions and star appearances.
>
>    2) Episode schedules, guides and summaries, and announcements of
>       airing time changes.
>
>    3) Announcements, commentary and background material on
>       _Babylon 5_ from J. Michael Straczynski, the show's
>       executive producer.  This will include compilations of
>       his writings from online services such as GEnie and
>       CompuServe and very selective repostings of substantial
>       commentary from rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.  The latter
>       category will specifically *not* include his short answers
>       about details of past episodes.
>
>    4) Other material believed by the moderators to be of interest
>       to a broad base of B5 fans.
>
> Volume should not exceed a few messages a day.
>
> HISTORY OF THE GROUP:
>
> rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote
> for creation by 691:37 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 18 Nov 1995.
>
> PROPONENT:
>
> Alexander Bartolich 
>
> 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:
>
> 2010-05-20	First probe post
> 2010-08-09	Moderator Vacancy Investigation
>
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