Nan:2007-02-15-comp.org.team-os2-result

From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RESULT: comp.org.team-os2 will be removed
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.announce, comp.org.team-os2,
 news.announce.newgroups, news.groups.proposals, comp.os.os2.advocacy
Followup-To: news.groups.proposals
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:22:54 -0600
Organization: http://www.big-8.org/

                                 RESULT
                   comp.org.team-os2 will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 07 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
comp.org.team-os2.

This group will be removed on 20 Feb 2007.


RATIONALE: remove comp.org.team-os2

The newsgroup comp.org.team-os2 has not had any approved messages
since May 1998.  In February 1998, the moderator posted that all
recent submissions were either spam or technical questions about OS/2
rather than advocacy of OS/2, and that she was seeking a replacement
moderator.  In May 1998, along with the final approvals, the moderator
indicated that she had not found a replacement.

It is not clear that Team OS/2 still exists as a formal (or informal)
organization.  The web page at http://www.teamos2.org/ is rudimentary.

The unmoderated newsgroup comp.os.os2.advocacy can be used for
advocacy posting about OS/2.  The rest of the comp.os.os2.* hierarchy
may be used for discussion of technical issues about OS/2.


HISTORY: 

The newsgroups comp.org.team-os2 was created in August 1996 and was
fairly busy for about a year and a half.  The lass approval was in May
1998.


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups.proposals
  comp.org.team-os2
  comp.os.os2.advocacy
  comp.os.os2.announce


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2007-01-25     1st RFD
2007-02-07     2nd RFD/LCC
2007-02-15     Results