Subject: 2nd CFV: comp.lang.perl.moderated moderated
From: [email-masked] (Rebecca McQuitty)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 05:11:53 GMT
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.perl.announce

LAST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
               moderated group comp.lang.perl.moderated

Usenet readers may now vote on the proposed worldwide newsgroup
comp.lang.perl.moderated.  This CFV contains information about both
the voting process and the proposed group; please read the entire CFV
before voting.

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Newsgroups line:
comp.lang.perl.moderated	Perl language. (Moderated)

Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 1 Jul 1998.

A neutral, third-party volunteer is conducting this vote.  Direct
questions about the vote to the votetaker, and questions about the
proposed group to the proponents.

Proponent: Mark-Jason Dominus <[email-masked]>
Proponent: Chip Salzenberg <[email-masked]>
Votetaker: Rebecca McQuitty <[email-masked]>

RATIONALE: comp.lang.perl.moderated

The comp.lang.perl.misc group presently has very high traffic:
typically about 250 articles per day.  Much of this traffic is given
over to people asking off-topic questions, and questions answered in
the FAQ.

In these circumstances, a number of regular posters to the group have
stopped reading comp.lang.perl.misc, while new readers can find it
difficult to find relevant posts.  The result is reduced usefulness of
the existing comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup.

This comp.lang.perl.moderated group is proposed as high
signal-to-noise group where readers will not be subjected to the types
of articles described above. The intention is to provide a useful
resource for inexperienced Perl programmers and to attract and retain
experienced programmers who can make a substantial contribution to the
group.

Comp.lang.perl.misc would still be left in place for more general
discussion, and for those topics that no one seems to agree on a place
for.

CHARTER: comp.lang.perl.moderated

The purpose of comp.lang.perl.moderated is to provide a forum for
discussion of matters related to the Perl programming language.

Comp.lang.perl.moderated is a moderated news group for discussion of
common Perl programming issues.  Welcomed topics of discussion will
include any topic directly related to the Perl programming language.
The moderators will decide which posts are of general interest to the
worldwide Perl community.  The moderators are free to reject any post
which is covered by the comp.lang.perl FAQ(s) or which is more
appropriate to another Usenet discussion group.  Obvious homework
problems and trivial questions that can be answered by quick
inspection of the on-line documentation or any Perl text may also be
considered off-topic.  Very broad questions which could equally apply
to any computer programming language may also be considered off-topic
by the moderators.  Advocacy and "flame wars" about Perl will be
considered off-topic.

Articles should be formatted so as to be easily readable by any Usenet
reader.  Badly formatted or munged articles and articles in violation
of the standard principles of netiquette may be rejected by the
moderators.

Overall, the moderators will lean towards accepting articles.

All posters to the group must be registered.  Submissions from
registered posters will be forwarded to a moderator, who will post it
to the group if it is appropriate.  Inappropriate articles will be
returned to the poster when possible, with an explanation of why the
article was rejected.  No attempt will be made to verify the validity
of the poster's address, and bounces will be discarded.  If feasible,
some mechanism will be provided for users to post under false
addresses until some better solution to the spamming problem appears.

Articles from first-time posters will be held temporarily.  The poster
will be sent registration instructions, the group charter, and
pointers to relevant references.  After the poster registers, the held
article will be forwarded to the moderation panel as usual.

No commercial posts of any sort will be allowed in the group.

The moderation panel will always consist of at least six members.  New
moderators may be appointed, and old ones removed, by a two-thirds
majority vote of the moderation panel.

Any article submitted by a member of the moderation panel outside the
exercise of his or her administrative role will be subject to the full
moderation procedure described herein.

The moderation panel may implement any technical solutions it
considers necessary to enforce the provisions of this charter.

END CHARTER.

MODERATOR INFO: comp.lang.perl.moderated

Moderator: Russ Allbery <[email-masked]>
Moderator: Greg Bacon <[email-masked]>
Moderator: Hildo Biersma <[email-masked]>
Moderator: Mark-Jason Dominus <[email-masked]>
Moderator: Eric Eisenhart <[email-masked]>
Moderator: "M.J.T. Guy" <[email-masked]>
Moderator: Tad McClellan <[email-masked]>
Moderator: Chris Nandor <[email-masked]>
Moderator: "Nathan V. Patwardhan" <[email-masked]>
Moderator: "Stephen P. Potter" <[email-masked]>
Moderator: Stephen Zander <[email-masked]>

Administrative contact address: [email-masked]
Article submission address: [email-masked]

END MODERATOR INFO.

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Rebecca Graham McQuitty                   Member, Usenet Volunteer Votetakers