General OS-oriented discussion not carried elsewhere

There is a proposal currently in news.announce.newgroups to remove 198
unmoderated newsgroups all across the BIG8. Because of the magnitude
of the group list the proposal is not crossposted to target groups.
Instead pointers are posted to a few selected groups.

The full text of the proposal is available here:

  http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Nan:2011-02-01-rfd-great-downsizing
  http://groups.google.com/group/news.announce.newgroups/msg/091abc69fd…

Affected groups that might interest you:

comp.os.chorus          CHORUS microkernel issues, research and developments.
comp.os.inferno         The Inferno network operating system from Lucent.
comp.os.lantastic               The LANtastic network operating system.
comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm            MS-Windows communication applications.
comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95             Running DOS&Win3 apps in Win95.
comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win3x         Utility/add-on programs for Win3.x.
comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.mail            Winsock email applications.
comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.news            Winsock news applications.
comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras               Windows RAS networking.
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy          Windows NT advocacy arguments.
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release               Unreleased and beta Windows NT versions.
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware            Windows NT hardware setup.
comp.os.ms-windows.pre-release          Pre-release/beta versions of Windows.
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia                Multimedia programming.
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.owl         OWL-based development for Windows.
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp           WinHelp/Multimedia Viewer development.
comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win3x          Setup, hardware, and driver issues in Win3.x.
comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95          Setup, hardware, and driver issues in Win95.
comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup          Setup and Configuration of Windows 95.
comp.os.msdos.mail-news         Administering mail & network news systems under MS-DOS.
comp.os.netware.security                Netware Security issues.
comp.os.os2.comm                Modem/Fax hardware/drivers/apps/utils under OS/2.
comp.os.os2.programmer.oop              Programming system objects (SOM, WPS, etc).
comp.os.os2.scitech             Real-time, engineering/CAD, sciences, etc.
comp.os.parix           Forum for users of the parallel operating system PARIX.
comp.os.xinu            The XINU operating system from Purdue (D. Comer).

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.

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                   MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)
                     moderated group comp.os.research

This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because
moderated newsgroup comp.os.research is not functioning, and may have
been abandoned by its moderator(s).

This investigation will attempt to verify the reasons for non-function,
and may result in the removal of the group or the selection and
installation of a new moderator.  In practice, the Big-8 Management
Board considers the third alternative — changing the status of the
group from moderated to unmoderated — as likely to cause more harm than
good.

NEWSGROUPS LINE:
comp.os.research Operating systems and related areas. (Moderated)

RATIONALE:

Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.   Recent articles are in
the newsgroup because the moderator of a different moderated newsgroup
approved them.  The last non-crossposted article dates from 2006.

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.os.research
comp.os.misc

CHARTER:  Not available.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

This newsgroup is related to one of the original moderated newsgroups,
mod.os.  For many years it was a rich source of material on basic
operating system principles and research.  It was moderately active
until mid-2006, although FAQs were last updated in mid 1990s.

PROPONENT:  Steve Bonine <s…@pobox.com>

PROCEDURE:

Those who wish to comment on this moderator vacancy investigation should
subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in the relevant
threads in that newsgroup.  To this end, the followup header of this MVI
has been set to news.groups.proposals.

For more information on the MVI process, please see
http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Moderator_Vacancy_Investigations

CHANGE HISTORY:

12 June 2011: Moderator Vacancy Investigation

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