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The Usenet Big-8 Management Board

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

Latest news

• 2024-11-17: RFD: Remove rec.arts.comics.reviews and rec.arts.comics.info
• 2024-10-28: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.os.plan9
• 2024-09-27: MODERATOR FOUND: news.announce.newusers
• 2024-09-27: MODERATOR FOUND: news.newusers.questions
• 2024-09-13: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.lang.asm.x86
• 2024-04-10: MODERATOR FOUND: news.admin.technical
• 2024-03-28: MODERATOR FOUND: comp.programming.literate
• 2024-02-27: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: news.admin.technical
• 2024-02-12: MODERATOR FOUND: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
• 2024-01-15: 2nd RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting - LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS
• 2023-12-22: 2nd RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting
• 2023-12-01: RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting

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