Nan:2010-03-07-lcc-misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics

From: Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RFD: misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics moderated (remove) LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:51:24 EST
Message-ID: <hn0v7i$g9r$1@news.albasani.net>

              REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
              moderated group misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics

This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove moderated
newsgroup misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics.

RATIONALE:

Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.

  maat@anti-fascism.org
    (generated from misc-activism-anti-fascism-tactics@moderators.isc.org)
    retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics	Planning anti-fascist activities. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics

CHARTER OF MISC.ACTIVISM.ANTI-FASCISM.TACTICS

Misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics moderated is intended as the anti-fascist
time/space antipode of soc.politics.anti-fascism. It is for discussions and
debates of real-time anti-fascist activities (NB: the triple plural)

Moderation Policy:

The moderator(s) will actively encourage critical anti-fascist discussions and
debates of anti-fascist real-time actions. The moderator(s) reserve the right
to reject posts that are off-topic to the declared purpose of the group.

Single cross-posts will generally not be accepted; non-spammed multiple
postings to other news groups and discussion lists will not be actively
discouraged.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics is a moderated newsgroup which passed its
vote for creation by 719:110 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on
27 Feb 1998.

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 misc.activism.anti-fascism.tactics are:
- leave the group as it is
- remove the group

For more information on the MVI process, please see 

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:mvi

CHANGE HISTORY:

2010-01-17	Probe post
2010-01-24	Moderator Vacancy Investigation
2010-02-06	1st RFD
2010-02-21	2nd RFD
2010-03-07	LCC