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• creates well-named, well-used newsgroups in the Big-8 Usenet hierarchies;
• makes necessary adjustments to existing groups;
• rmgroup removes groups that are not well-used; and
• assists and encourages the support of a canonical Big-8 newsgroup list by Usenet sites.

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Recent Announcements

• 2010-06-08: 2010-06-08-rfd-comp.theory.info-retrieval 1st RFD: comp.theory.info-retrieval (remove)
• 2010-06-08: 2010-06-08-rfd-comp.sys.sgi.announce 1st RFD: comp.sys.sgi.announce (remove)
• 2010-06-08: 2010-06-08-rfd-misc.activism.militia 1st RFD: misc.activism.militia (remove)
• 2010-06-08: 2010-06-08-rfd-misc.business.facilitators 1st RFD: misc.business.facilitators (remove)
• 2010-06-08: 2010-06-08-rfd-misc.business.product-dev 1st RFD: misc.business.product-dev (remove)
• 2010-06-08: 2010-06-08-rfd-misc.kids.moderated 1st RFD: misc.kids.moderated (remove)
• 2010-06-08: 2010-06-08-rfd-news.announce.important 1st RFD: news.announce.important (remove)
• 2010-06-08: 2010-06-08-rfd-rec.arts.books.excerpts 1st RFD: rec.arts.books.excerpts (remove)
• 2010-05-26: 2010-05-26-result-comp.sys.newton.announce RESULT: comp.sys.newton.announce will be removed
• 2010-05-26: 2010-05-26-result-comp.std.wireless RESULT: comp.std.wireless will be removed
• 2010-05-26: 2010-05-26-result-comp.std.unix RESULT: comp.std.unix will be removed
• 2010-05-26: 2010-05-26-result-comp.software.year-2000.tech RESULT: comp.software.year-2000.tech will be removed
• 2010-05-26: 2010-05-26-result-comp.os.os2.moderated RESULT: comp.os.os2.moderated will be removed
• 2010-05-26: 2010-05-26-result-comp.os.os2.announce RESULT: new moderator for comp.os.os2.announce
• 2010-05-26: 2010-05-26-result-comp.os.netware.announce RESULT: comp.os.netware.announce will be removed
• 2010-05-26: 2010-05-26-result-comp.lang.pascal.delphi.announce RESULT: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.announce will be removed
• 2010-05-26: 2010-05-26-result-soc.religion.christian RESULT: soc.religion.christian moderated will be removed
• 2010-05-12: 2010-05-12-result-sci.psychology.psychotherapy.moderated RESULT - sci.psychology.psychotherapy.moderated will be removed

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