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The Usenet Big-8 Management Board

creates well-named, well-used newsgroups in the Big-8 Usenet hierarchies,
makes necessary adjustments to existing groups,
removes groups that are not well-used, and
assists and encourages the support of a canonical Big-8 newsgroup list by Usenet sites.

Latest news

2024-11-17: RFD: Remove rec.arts.comics.reviews and rec.arts.comics.info
2024-10-28: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.os.plan9
2024-09-27: MODERATOR FOUND: news.announce.newusers
2024-09-27: MODERATOR FOUND: news.newusers.questions
2024-09-13: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.lang.asm.x86
2024-04-10: MODERATOR FOUND: news.admin.technical
2024-03-28: MODERATOR FOUND: comp.programming.literate
2024-02-27: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: news.admin.technical
2024-02-12: MODERATOR FOUND: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
2024-01-15: 2nd RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting - LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS
2023-12-22: 2nd RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting
2023-12-01: RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting

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 * [[Board members]]
-* [[Working groups]]
+* [[Technical Team]]
-* [[How to volunteer]]
+* [[How to volunteer or donate]]
+* [[Finances]]
 * [[Contacting the Board]]
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-* [[Announcements|Announcements archive]]
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