From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RESULT: misc.business.credit will be removed
Newsgroups: misc.business.credit, news.announce.newgroups,
news.groups.proposals
Followup-To: news.groups.proposals
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:40:13 -0500
Organization: http://www.big-8.org/
RESULT
misc.business.credit 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 misc.business.credit.
This group will be removed on 09 Apr 2007.
RATIONALE: remove misc.business.credit
The last approved message was in September 1999. There had been
roughly 5 approved threads per month for the first three years of the
newsgroup (October 1995 to September 1996). For the final year, there
was typically only 1 or 2 approvals per month.
Alternatives include:
(1) Assign a new moderator.
(2) Convert the newsgroup to unmoderated status. I do not believe
that group with "business" in its name can function as an unmoderated
newsgroup (see misc.business.records-mgmt, the only unmoderated
misc.business.* Newsgroup).
(3) Remove the newsgroup. Discussion of business credit may (continue
to) occur in groups such as misc.business.moderated or
misc.entrepreneurs.moderated.
HISTORY:
The newsgroup misc.business.credit was created in October 1995.
Approved threads were around 5 per month for the first 3 years of its
existence. In the last year, there were typically 1 to 2 approvals
per month. The last approval was in September 1999.
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
misc.business.credit
The proponent will also post pointers to:
misc.business.moderated (moderated)
misc.entrepreneurs.moderated (moderated)
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2007-03-10 1st RFD
2007-03-28 2nd RFD/LCC
2007-04-04 Results (passes)
