Re: vacancy proposal - alt.religion.watchtower - convert vacant group to unmoderated

NightBulb.net <[email protected]> wrote:

>For your newsgroups file:
>alt.religion.watchtower 	Watchtower Society - Jehovah's Witnesses

>COMMENTS:

>The newsgroup (alt.religion.watchtower) was first established as a 
>moderated group. See Message-ID <[email protected]> for 
>information. The moderation of this group has been abandoned for a very 
>long time. All moderation email addresses are defunct. Moderation is no 
>longer necessary nor desirable.

>There is constant, ongoing discussion of the Watchtower Society in other 
>alt.* groups that are off-topic. This group would provide a proper focal 
>point for those unmoderated discussions.

>These off-topic discussions have continued for years unabated while the 
>group founded for this very subject has been abandoned, dormant and 
>inaccessible due to the moderation lock and absence of moderators.

>Removal of the moderation lock will permit these discussions to be 
>separated into the group that was initially created for them.

>CHARTER:

>This formerly vacated group is re-activated for discussion and debate of 
>the teaching, doctrine, activities, and news of the Watchtower Society, 
>also known as Jehovah's Witnesses. Spam, commercial advertisements, and 
>illegal activity are prohibited.

>{MODERATION POLICY: unmoderated}

Sorry, dude, but there's no way to force all the world's News
administrators to convert a moderated newsgroup to an unmoderated
newsgroup just by proposing it and sending a newgroup control message.
If any convert the group, you'll then have a mix of News sites with the
Moderation flag set to "yes" and others on which it's set to "no". That
makes a bad situation worse.

Please withdraw the proposal and do not send a newgroup message.

Find an appropriate existing unmoderated religion newsgroup in which to
hold your discussions.