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Dear Steve,

On 2024-10-28 22:51, Steve Bonine wrote:
> 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.

The MVI was prompted by one of the directors of the Plan 9 Foundation, 
who had written to the Board with the intention of reviving the 
newsgroup, perhaps via a bidirectional gateway to the 9fans mailing 
list.  He suggested converting the group to unmoderated, but as this is 
a rather experimental solution, we proposed running an MVI, at least as 
a first step, to see if the group could remain moderated.

Yes, perhaps we should have mentioned this in the MVI.  I have written 
to the director in question to let him know about the MVI so that he can 
weigh in.

Regards,
Tristan

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