Nan:2006-07-13-misc-sources-result

From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)
Subject: RESULT: comp.sources.misc will be removed
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, comp.sources.misc,
 comp.sources.d
Followup-To: news.groups
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:07:18 -0700

                                 RESULT
                   comp.sources.misc will be removed

The Big-8 Management Board has decided by consensus to remove the newsgroup 
comp.sources.misc.  Voting began on 11 Jul 2006, and ended on 12 Jul 2006.

This group will be removed on 17 Jul 2006.


RATIONALE: remove comp.sources.misc

The last approved message was in April 1995.

There are other more suitable means of distributing program sources,
so comp.sources.misc is not a suitable candidate for conversion to an
unmoderated newsgroup.


HISTORY: 

The newsgroup comp.sources.misc was created in April 1987 to replace the
unmoderated newsgroup net.sources.  The charter (from the monthly
informational posting) was:

  This newsgroup is not for large programs which belong in other sources
  groups; it is for sources which do not fit elsewhere (for example,
  MS-DOS and VMS non-game sources) and for the small stuff -- for
  example, your favorite shell script to set your prompt or etc. -- the
  little stuff that just doesn't warrant submission to comp.sources.unix
  (formerly mod.sources), where it'd look a bit silly next to the latest
  version of Xterm....

  As a result, there will be no archiving of most sources, and the group
  will be run in an informal fashion.  In general, *anything* will be
  accepted, but --

  (1) Sources that belong elsewhere will be submitted to another newsgroup.
      This will primarily be done with large programs, which will be
      forwarded to comp.sources.unix.  The determinant for this is whether
      it has more than one source file or not.

  (2) Discussion will be routed to comp.sources.d rather than cluttering
      this newsgroup.


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups
  comp.sources.misc
  comp.sources.d


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2006-07-13     Results posted
2006-07-06     2nd RFD (Last Call for Comments)
2006-06-26     RFD posted
2006-06-16     RFD received