• MODERATOR FOUND: news.announce.newusers

    From Big-8 Management Board@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 27 11:38:19 2024
    XPost: news.announce.newusers, news.groups.proposals, news.newusers.questions

    REPLACEMENT MODERATOR FOUND
    news.announce.newusers

    The Big-8 Management Board is pleased to announce that it has taken on
    the moderation duties for news.announce.newusers, returning the group
    to service after a considerable hiatus.

    The previous moderator, Kathy Morgan, lost access to the group's
    moderation address when the server at albasani.net suffered a failure
    in early 2020, and the group has been dormant since then. In email communication with the Board, Kathy later expressed a wish to retire
    from moderation duties.

    The Board has therefore volunteered to moderate news.announce.newusers,
    along with its companion group news.newusers.questions. While the
    Board's core responsibility is to maintain the roster of groups in the
    Big 8 hierarchies, it is also in keeping with the ethos of the Board to
    promote and support the Big 8 and Usenet in general. As such, the Board considers it worthwhile to ensure that these newsgroups and their FAQs
    remain available for the benefit of newcomers to Usenet.


    MODERATOR INFO: news.announce.newusers

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


    CHARTER AND MODERATION POLICY OF NEWS.ANNOUNCE.NEWUSERS:

    There is no charter on file for news.announce.newusers at https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/news/.

    The newsgroups line for the group is:

    news.announce.newusers Explanatory postings for new users. (Moderated)

    The group was created in the mid-1980s as part of the "Great Renaming".
    It functions as a "read-only" group, carrying regular informational announcements for newcomers to Usenet.

    Articles sent to the group *will not be approved*. Questions about
    Usenet should be posted to news.newusers.questions instead, and any
    comments or suggestions regarding the regular informational postings
    should be emailed to the moderation team's contact address above.


    DISTRIBUTION:

    news.announce.newgroups
    news.announce.newusers
    news.groups.proposals
    news.newusers.questions


    CHANGE HISTORY:

    2024-09-27 Announcement

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