Nan:2006-07-13-reviewed-sources-result

From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)
Subject: RESULT: comp.sources.reviewed will be removed
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, comp.sources.reviewed,
 comp.sources.d
Followup-To: news.groups
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:01:08 -0700

                                 RESULT
                 comp.sources.reviewed will be removed

The Big-8 Management Board has decided by consensus to remove the newsgroup 
comp.sources.reviewed.  Voting began on 11 Jul 2006, and ended on 12 Jul 2006.

This group will be removed on 17 Jul 2006.


RATIONALE: remove comp.sources.reviewed

The last approved message was in October 1994.

There are other more suitable means of distributing program sources,
so comp.sources.reviewed is not a suitable candidate for conversion to an
unmoderated newsgroup.


HISTORY: 

The newsgroup comp.sources.reviewed was created in April 1991, with the
first approved message in MAY 1991.  The charter (from the CFV) was:

   "Comp.sources.reviewed" is a moderated newsgroup for the distribution
   of program sources that have been subjected to a Peer Review process.
   Similar to the process used for academic journals, submissions are sent
   to a moderator who then sends the sources to Peer Review volunteers for
   evaluation.  The Reviewers are asked to provided a timely evaluation
   of the software by compiling and running it on their machine.  If time
   does not permit them to complete a review, they are responsible for
   asking the moderator to select another reviewer.  If the Moderator and
   Peer Reviewers judge a submission to be acceptable, the sources will
   be posted along with the written comments provided by the Reviewers.
   If a submission is not found to be acceptable, the submitter will be
   provided with the Reviewers' comments, and they will have the option of
   addressing those comments and submitting the sources again.


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups
  comp.sources.reviewed
  comp.sources.d


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2006-07-13     Results posted
2006-07-06     2nd RFD (Last Call for Comments)
2006-06-26     RFD posted
2006-06-16     RFD received