Nan:2009-11-15-rfd-comp-emulators-announce

From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: 1. RFD: comp.emulators.announce moderated (remove)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:44:06 EST
Message-ID: <hdp6ki$etp$1@news.albasani.net>


              REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
              moderated group comp.emulators.announce

This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove moderated
newsgroup comp.emulators.announce.

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

comp.emulators.announce	Emulator news, FAQs, announcements. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.emulators.announce

PROPONENT:

Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

CHARTER OF COMP.EMULATORS.ANNOUNCE

  This is a moderated group with announcements about emulators, emulator
  ftp sites, new emulator images, and emulator FAQs.  Emulator
  discussion seems to have a fairly high noise level, so this will be
  useful for important news and coordinating FAQs for newbies.

RATIONALE:

Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.

<comp-emulators-announce@moderators.isc.org>: host
    moderators.individual.net[130.133.4.7] said: 550-Callout verification
    failed: 550-550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not
    exist. Please 550-try 550-550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email
    address for typos or 550-550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at
    550-550 5.1.1 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6596 550
    21si3930726bwz.4 (in reply to RCPT TO command)

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

comp.emulators.announce is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 199:23 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 16 May 1994.

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, 1. RFD, 2. RFD, and LCC), each taking two weeks. At the end of the
process the B8MB will vote on the issue.

Available options for comp.emulators.announce 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:

2009-10-29	Probe post bounced
2009-11-01	Moderator Vacancy Investigation
2009-11-15	1. RFD