From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RESULT: comp.sys.net-computer.announce will be removed
Newsgroups: comp.sys.net-computer.announce, comp.sys.net-computer.misc,
comp.sys.net-computer.advocacy, news.announce.newgroups,
news.groups.proposals
Followup-To: news.groups.proposals
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:42:00 -0500
Organization: http://www.big-8.org/
RESULT
comp.sys.net-computer.announce will be removed
The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 28 Mar 2007 initiated a five-day
period for final comments. Following the comment period, the Big-8
Management Board has decided by consensus to remove the newsgroup
comp.sys.net-computer.announce.
This group will be removed on 09 Apr 2007.
RATIONALE: remove comp.sys.net-computer.announce
The last approved message was in June 1999. During its roughly 2
years of activity, the group had a total of less than 20 articles.
Announcements of interest to the Network Computer community may be
made in the unmoderated group comp.sys.net-computer.misc which has
very low traffic.
HISTORY:
The newsgroup comp.sys.net-computer.announce was created in June 1997
as part of a 3-group hierarchy including comp.sys.net-computer.*
(CSNC) hierarchy including CSNC.advocacy, CSNC.announce, and
CSNC.misc.
During its roughly 2 years of activity, less than 20 articles were
approved, and in about 1/2 the months no articles were approved. The
last approval occured in June 1999.
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.sys.net-computer.announce
comp.sys.net-computer.advocacy
comp.sys.net-computer.misc
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2007-03-15 1st RFD
2007-03-28 2nd RFD/LCC
2007-04-04 Results (passes)
