MODERATOR FOUND: news.admin.announce

REPLACEMENT MODERATOR FOUND
news.admin.announce


The Big-8 Management Board is pleased to announce that it has taken on
the moderation duties for news.admin.announce. The group previously did
not have a functioning moderation system, and the most recent previous
moderator, Tim Skirvin, notified the Board that he no longer had time
to moderate the group. The group is now open for submissions.


MODERATOR INFO: news.admin.announce

Moderator: Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Article submission address: <news-admin-announce@nan.users.panix.com>
Moderation team contact:
<news-admin-announce-request@nan.users.panix.com>


CHARTER AND MODERATION POLICY OF NEWS.ADMIN.ANNOUNCE:

News.admin.announce is a forum for important announcements for news
administrators. It is a moderated forum, watched over by a team of
moderators for added speed. Possible topics for messages include
announcements regarding news transport or browsing software, Frequently
Asked Questions lists, announcements of new EMP cancellers,
announcements of new cancellation criteria, reports that directly relate
to the future of Usenet, reports on legal issues that directly affect
news administrators such as the Communications Decency Act, and so
forth.

News.admin.announce is moderated by a team of moderators. The moderators
will approve any message that they feel fits the following criteria:

1. The message is an announcement that the moderators feel is important
   for most or all news administrators.
2. The message is formatted for 78 or fewer characters per line, and is
   easily human readable.
3. The message is not a binary, nor will it break standard Usenet
   readers.
4. Followups for the message are set appropriately.

Unapproved posts will be cancelled. At any time, moderators can be added
or removed by a majority vote of the then-current moderators.

The news.admin.net-abuse.* hierarchy is for discussion of abuse of
Usenet and/or the Internet; it is not for discussion of abuse of groups
or individuals on such networks, such as flames, personal attacks, or
off-topic messages.

Binaries are specifically prohibited from all groups in the news.admin.*
hierarchy, except as examples of other abuse. All messages removed by
unauthorized cancels in the hierarchy will be automatically reposted by
Dave the Resurrector or a similar program, at the discretion of the
group moderator or, for the unmoderated groups, the operator of the
resurrector program. Spams, gateway spews, and other attacks on the
system itself will be removed as appropriate, following standard Usenet
guidelines.


DISTRIBUTION

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


CHANGE HISTORY

2025-03-28 Announcement

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