Nan:2010-08-23-rfd-rec.autos.sport.info

From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: 1st RFD: rec.autos.sport.info moderated (remove)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:51:42 EDT
Message-ID: <i4smr6$e39$1@news.albasani.net>

              REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
              moderated group rec.autos.sport.info

This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove moderated
newsgroup rec.autos.sport.info.

RATIONALE:

According to Google's archive the last regular post was approved on
2007-11-09. A probe message resulted in a bounce.

  ras-info@metrics.com
    (generated from rec-autos-sport-info@moderators.isc.org)
    retry timeout exceeded

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

rec.autos.sport.info	Auto racing news, results, announcements. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
rec.autos.sport.info
rec.autos.sport.misc

CHARTER OF REC.AUTOS.SPORT.INFO

     This group will contain announcements, results, standings, news
     items, press releases, schedules, "reliable" rumours, and other
     information about automotive racing.  No discussion will be
     permitted; followups will be directed to rec.autos.sport.

  * rec.autos.sport.info will provide a low-volume channel with all
    the information (as opposed to discussion) in one place.  The group
    will be jointly moderated, using a combination of software and
    people to provide a rapid approval process for appropriate news
    articles.  With any of the moderators free to approve any given
    posting, we hope to provide a few hours' turnaround time for
    most articles posted to rec.autos.sport.info.  Rejected articles
    may be automatically posted to rec.autos.sport (unless the author
    requests otherwise); the intent is not to weed out opinions but
    to maintain a high information content.  Moderators will NOT
    base their approval on the content of the post, but, rather, only
    on the appropriateness and estimated reliability of the report.

    The provisional list of moderators is:
	Andrew Henry        A.H.Henry@bath.ac.uk
	Dan Jones           danjones@pyramid.com
	Mike Holthouse      holthous@cis.ohio-state.edu
	Ron O'Dell          keeper@armory.com
	Steven Wheeler      swheeler@lawson.its.utas.edu.au
	Tom Haapanen        tomh@metrics.com
    The moderator list is subject to change during the RFD period;
    after the creation of the group, new moderators can be added and
    existing ones removed by a simple majority vote of the current
    moderators.

    All articles will have a Folloup-To: line set to automatically
    redirect followups to the appropriate rec.autos.sport group.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

rec.autos.sport.info is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 229:55 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 1 Apr 1994.

PROPONENT:

Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

PROCEDURE:

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.

In the course of the removal process four formal announcements are posted
(MVI, 1st RFD, 2nd RFD, and LCC), each taking two weeks. At the end of the
process the B8MB will vote on the issue.

Available options for rec.autos.sport.info are:
- leave the group as it is
- remove the group

For more information on the removal process, please see 

http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Group_Removal_FAQ

CHANGE HISTORY:

2010-05-20	Probe post
2010-08-09	Moderator Vacancy Investigation
2010-08-23	1st RFD