Re: 2nd RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting - LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS (REDUX)

On 14.01.2025 23:55 Uhr Paul W. Schleck wrote:

What is the Board's intentions on this MVI and LCC?

Getting rid of the currently non-functioning group, either by finding a
moderator, changing to unmoderated or delete it.

Is it confined to just voting yes/no on deleting the newsgroup?  If
the vote is no (do not delete), does the Board intend to spring on
the readership a previously undiscussed (at least for
rec.radio.broadcasting specifically) intention to convert this
newsgroup to unmoderated?

This is one possible outcome.

This strikes me as unprecedented, potentially out of order, and
ultimately, a bad idea.  I would hope that there would be further
public discussion about this, as it seems to be substantially "new
business," to be debated on its own merits.

I agree with that. We though that this group could be a test case
because it is currently unused anyway. We also discussed that we need
to change the moderation address to our inbox first, so if the change
to unmoderated won't be processed by a news server, we will notice that
if somebody tries to post.

The former moderators and I had sought to cooperate with the Board as
much as possible to notify them of the moderators' resignations, to
help find new moderators, or failing that, to ensure an orderly
shutdown of the newsgroup, out of respect for the contributions of
the past moderation teams, including its founder, William Pfeiffer
(RIP).

There were possible candidates, but they didn't reply anymore and I
suggested not to postpone that indefinitely and either delete it or
change it to unmoderated to make it usable again.

But now we have the possibility of unmoderating the newsgroup.  It may
not work, it may partially work enough to theoretically allow
propagation of unmoderated submissions to at least some of Usenet.
However, without a realistic audience, this article propagation will
likely be off-topic content and SPAM, if at all.  For example, see the
unmoderated alt.radio.broadcasting, which already exists, and for
which an unmoderated rec.radio.broadcasting would be a duplicate.

Agreed, that would be a duplicate, but that exists for many topics. As
long as those groups are being used, I don't see a big problem here,
even when I prefer to bring this together.

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kind regards
Marco

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