Nan:2006-09-15-bosnia-lcc

From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)
Subject: 2nd RFD: remove misc.news.bosnia (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, misc.news.bosnia,
 soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
Followup-To: news.groups
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:16:16 -0700

                      REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
                        remove misc.news.bosnia

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the 
newsgroup misc.news.bosnia.


PROCEDURE:

The B8MB plans to begin voting on this proposal after five days.  Please
offer any final discussion or comments before the end of this waiting
period.  Voting may take up to one week (7 days); a result will be posted
following the end of the voting period.

All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.

The full (draft) group removal procedure is documented here:

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



SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:

No comments were received.


RATIONALE: remove misc.news.bosnia

The last approved message was in May 1998.

Since the 1990s, development of the Internet and World Wide Web have opened up
direct access to news sources in Bosnia and southeastern Europe in general so
that a newsgroup is no longer the most efficient means of news distribution.  In
addition, it may be impossible to have a moderator who is considered neutral,
and there may be copyright issues with regard to distribution of news articles
published in other media.


HISTORY: 

The newsgroup misc.news.bosnia was created in September 1994 to "provide prompt
& timely information on Bosnia"


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups
  misc.news.bosnia
  soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna

The proponent will also post pointers to:

  soc.culture.yugoslavia
  soc.culture.croatia


CHARTER:

The newsgroup line is:

misc.news.bosnia	News, articles, reports & information on Bosnia.

The Charter (from the CFV) was:
========================================================================
The purpose of this newsgroup is to provide prompt & timely information
on Bosnia. This may include variety of items including, summary of news
reports, upcoming events, nato briefing, coverage of Bosnia by international
press, international news agencies, wire news services, announcements &
info by U.S. state department, listing of relief organization and much more.
========================================================================


PROPONENT: 


Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2006-09-15     2nd RFD (LCC)
2006-09-01     1st RFD