Re: 2nd RFD: Remove rec.arts.comics.reviews and rec.arts.comics.info

I'll decide where to post a followup, thank you very much. I refuse to
post in news.groups.proposals. Gee, the hierarchy administrators sure
don't see irony in directing discussion to a moderated newsgroup
designed to thwart discussion (criticsm of the past hierarchy
administrators for being trolled into the discussions of the socmen
herding group and pondscum group, both absurd proposals for moderated
newsgroups discussion of which wouldn't die out for months) to discuss
the failure of the moderation scheme for these two newsgroups.

Usenet Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> wrote:

This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated
newsgroups rec.arts.comics.reviews and rec.arts.comics.info.

Newsgroups Lines:

rec.arts.comics.info Reviews, convention information and other comics
news. (Moderated)
rec.arts.comics.reviews Reviews of comics and comics-related materials.
(Moderated)

Rationale for removal:

rec.arts.comics.reviews and rec.arts.comics.info haven't seen posts in
the last 12 years and currently don't have moderators.

On 2012-06-01, the moderator of rec.arts.comics.reviews, Tim Skirvin,
posted an article indicating that he would like to step down and
calling for a replacement moderator:
<https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.comics.reviews/c/Cfcr3NW6ovQ>
The search was evidently unsuccessful as the ISC currently has no
moderator address registered for the group.

Another time when skirv wanted to withdraw as a group moderator (I
forget which group), he posted an MVI, which was an abuse of process.

This is all irrelevant. What needs to be done, which would be hard but
useful work, is to contact each and every currently used moderated
newsgroup to verify that they have a moderation team in place and a
moderator succession policy.

Are you going to do that? No, of course not, 'cuz that might ensure that
these might be useable for the indefinite future.

Leave all the failed moderated newsgroups in the checkgroups to remind
the Usenet community of the folly of the current moderation scheme with
its single point of (inevitable) failure.

As always, cleaning up checkgroups doesn't save Usenet. It's busy work.

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