Nan:2007-02-19-soc.religion.vaishnava-result

From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RESULT: soc.religion.vaishnava will be removed
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, soc.religion.vaishnava,
 humanities.language.sanskrit, news.groups.proposals, soc.religion.hindu
Followup-To: news.groups.proposals
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:15:28 -0600
Organization: http://www.big-8.org/

                                 RESULT
                 soc.religion.vaishnava will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 12 Feb 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
soc.religion.vaishnava.

This group will be removed on 22 Feb 2007.


RATIONALE: remove soc.religion.vaishnava

The newsgroup soc.religion.vaishnava has not had any approved messages
since March 1998.  After its creation in 1996, the group was active
for slightly over 2 years.  It has been inactive for the past 9 years.

Conceivably, the group could be converted to an unmoderated status.
But one of the reasons for moderation in the first place was to block
gross abuse of discussion by Jay Stevens (aka Jai Maharaj).  The group
was robomoderated, with provisions against cross-posting; more than 4
articles per 24 hours; or posting with Subjects in all caps.

It might be possible to reinsitute robomoderation, but any such
moderation should be expected to deal with attempts by Jay Stevens to
flood the group or circumvent the moderation of the group.  It might
also be possible to institute conventional hand moderation.

The lack of support for creation for soc.religion.vaishnava.dvaita
(see History) may indicate a lack of interest in the revival of
soc.religion.vaishnava.


HISTORY: 

The newsgroup soc.religion.vaishnava was created in January 1996.  It
was active for slightly over 2 years, until March 1998.

In August 1999, a proposal was made to create
soc.religion.vaishnava.dvaita.  Part of the rationale for the proposed
group, was the inactivity of soc.religion.vaishnava and
soc.religion.hindu.  The proposal for the new group failed for lack of
support (90:38).


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups.proposals
  soc.religion.vaishnava
  soc.religion.hindu
  humanities.language.sanskrit


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2007-02-01     1st RFD
2007-02-12     2nd RFD/LCC
2007-02-19     Results