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In article <vfpdib$18fbv$1@dont-email.me>, Steve Bonine  <spb@pobox.com> wrote:
>Big-8 Management Board wrote:
>> This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun
>> because the moderated newsgroup comp.os.plan9 is not functioning,
>> and has been abandoned by its moderator. 
>
>I am sincerely curious.
>
>The moderator announced his retirement in July 2013.
>
>According that font of all knowledge, Wikipedia, the last release of 
>plan9 was in early 2015.
>
>With dozens of dead newsgroups, why this one?  There is no hint in the 
>MVI that there is any interest in this OS, much less in a newsgroup.

Would a complete revote be required in order to make this group 
unmoderated?
--scott
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