Nan:2006-08-14-x400-lcc

From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)
Subject: 3rd RFD: remove comp.protocols.iso.x400, comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, comp.protocols.iso.x400,
 comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway, comp.protocols.misc
Followup-To: news.groups
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:01:48 -0700

                      REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
                     remove comp.protocols.iso.x400
                   remove comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the newsgroups 
comp.protocols.iso.x400 and comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway.


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 comp.protocols.iso.x400 and comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway

comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway has not had any approved messages since
June 1994.

comp.protocols.iso.x400 has not had any on-topic messages in the past 11
months.

This RFD is part of a proposal to remove 31 low-traffic former-INET
groups.  Please see article <1152814343.19576@isc.org>, available here:

    http://news.killfile.org/?group=news.announce.newgroups&number=1363

Note: the proposal to remove two of the 31 groups, comp.os.rsts and
comp.std.announce, has been withdrawn.


HISTORY: 

comp.protocols.iso.x400 and comp.protocols.iso.x400 has existed as an INET
group since at least 1988. comp.protocols.iso.x400 was converted to an
unmoderated status in December 1992.  Both groups were promoted to the
standard Big 8 distribution in October 2000.


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups
  comp.protocols.iso.x400
  comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway
  comp.protocols.misc


CHARTER:

The newsgroup lines are:

comp.protocols.iso.x400	        X400 mail protocol discussions.
comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway X400 mail gateway discussions. (Moderated)


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>



CHANGE HISTORY: 

2006-08-14     3rd RFD (Last Call for Comments)
2006-07-13     2nd ("comprehensive") RFD
2006-07-06     1st RFD