Re: 1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator

The irony of discussing the failure of moderation in a moderated
newsgroup that has no reason to exist continues to be missed. I am
posting in news.groups.

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

              REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)

This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the following
101 moderated newsgroups.

RATIONALE:

Currently, those groups cannot be used for discussion because of the
lack of a moderator. Most of those groups haven't had a moderator for
a long time and have been unused for years. We consider it unlikely
that they will ever be revived with a new moderator. Nonetheless,
anyone interested in becoming a moderator for a group listed in this
RFD is invited to contact the Big-8 Management Board.

The audience for potential moderators of these specific newsgroups is
not to be found here in news.groups.

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
news.groups

Because of the magnitude of the group list, this proposal is not
cross-posted to target groups. In the course of these proceedings the
Board will post pointers to this announcement to appropriate
groups. Readers are encouraged to take the initiative and spread the
message.

Brilliant stuff there, Way to literally go behind everybody's back.

PROCEDURE:

The procedure shall take at least 8 weeks, with announcements posted
every 4 weeks: 1st RFD, 2nd RFD, and Last Call for Comments (LCC).

I look forward to your next trick, mass rmgrouping of unmoderated Big 8
newsgroups.

None of this is useful work and none of this will find even a single new
Usenet user, which I could have sworn was what you said was your most
important task.

This is all meaningless busywork.

. . .

If you have any objections, please make them heard in moderated group
news.groups.proposals. The "Followup-To:" header is set on this message,
so simply replying to this post should do the right thing.

You MUST NOT instruct me where to post my followup, It's my decision,
not yours.

I'm using unmoderated Usenet. You feel free to use moderated Usenet
whilst literally declaring moderation to be a complete and utter
failure.