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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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+  <p class="h1">The '''Usenet Big-8 Management Board'''</p>
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+<li>'''[[creation|creates]]''' well-named, well-used newsgroups in the '''[[Big-8 Usenet hierarchies]]''',</li>
+<li>makes '''[[Changing moderation status|necessary adjustments]]''' to existing groups,</li>
+<li>'''[[rmgroup|removes groups]]''' that are not well-used, and</li>
+<li>assists and encourages the support of a canonical '''[[Big-8 newsgroup list]]''' by Usenet sites.</li>
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+  <h5 class="card-header text-white bg-secondary">About the Big-8 Management Board</h5>
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+* [[Board members]]
+* [[Technical Team]]
+* [[How to volunteer or donate]]
+* [[Finances]]
+* [[Contacting the Board]]
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+  <h5 class="card-header text-white bg-secondary">About Usenet</h5>
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+* [[What is Usenet?]]
+* [[Getting Started with Usenet]]
+* [[News service providers]]
+* [[Newsreaders]]
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+* [[Newsgroup creation]]
+* [[Newsgroup removal]]
+* [[Moderation]]
+* [[Board policies]]
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+  <h5 class="card-header text-white bg-secondary">Reference library</h5>
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+* [[Archived announcements]]
+* [[Meeting minutes]]
+* [[Frequently asked questions (FAQs)]]
+* [[RFCs]]
+* [[Glossary]]
+* [[Links]]
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