Re: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.os.plan9

Dear Steve,
On 2024-10-28 22:51, Steve Bonine wrote:

I am sincerely curious.
 The moderator announced his retirement in July 2013.
 According that font of all knowledge, Wikipedia, the last release of plan9 was in early 2015.
 With dozens of dead newsgroups, why this one?  There is no hint in the MVI that there is any interest in this OS, much less in a newsgroup.

The MVI was prompted by one of the directors of the Plan 9 Foundation, who had written to the Board with the intention of reviving the newsgroup, perhaps via a bidirectional gateway to the 9fans mailing list.  He suggested converting the group to unmoderated, but as this is a rather experimental solution, we proposed running an MVI, at least as a first step, to see if the group could remain moderated.
Yes, perhaps we should have mentioned this in the MVI.  I have written to the director in question to let him know about the MVI so that he can weigh in.
Regards,
Tristan
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