Nan:2007-01-25-comp-org-eff-news-rfd

From: Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>
Subject: RFD: remove comp.org.eff.news moderated
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk, news.announce.newgroups, rec.games.frp.cyber,
 comp.org.eff.news, news.groups.proposals
Followup-To: news.groups.proposals
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:40:14 -0600
Organization: http://www.big-8.org/

                      REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
                        remove comp.org.eff.news

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated
newsgroup comp.org.eff.news.


RATIONALE: remove comp.org.eff.news

The newsgroup comp.org.eff.news has not had any approved messages
since September 1999.  The group had steady traffic from its inception
in September 1997.  There were two isolated approvals in July 1998 and
September 1999.

Announcements and discussion about the EFF (Electronic Frontier
Foundation) and its activities may occur in the unmoderated group
comp.org.eff.talk.  In addition, the EFF maintains a web site
http://www.eff.org/.


HISTORY: 

The newsgroups comp.org.eff.news (moderated) and comp.org.eff.talk
(unmoderated) were created as part of the Inet hierarchy in September
1990.  In July 1992, they were moved into the regular Big 7
distribution.  The moderated group was active for roughly 7 years, and
has been mostly inactive for the past 9 years.


PROCEDURE: 

The full group removal procedure is documented here:

  http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup

Those who wish to comment on this request to remove this newsgroup should
subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in the relevant threads 
in that newsgroup.

To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to 
news.groups.proposals.

All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.proposals.

If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the discussion
may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be taken to ensure that
all discussion appears in news.groups.proposals as well.


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups.proposals
  comp.org.eff.news
  comp.org.eff.talk
  rec.games.frp.cyber


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2007-01-25     1st RFD