Nan:2006-08-14-composition-result

From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)
Subject: RESULT: comp.edu.composition will be removed
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, comp.edu.composition,
 misc.writing
Followup-To: news.groups
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:23:00 -0700

                                 RESULT
                  comp.edu.composition will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 8 Aug 2006 initiated a five-day
period for final comments.  Following the comment period, the Big-8
Management board has decided by consensus to remove the newsgroup
comp.edu.composition.

This group will be removed on 21 Aug 2006.


RATIONALE: remove comp.edu.composition

comp.edu.composition has had no on-topic messages in the past 11 months.
Discussion about the use of computers for writing instruction would be better
placed in the misc.education.* hierarchy or in misc.writing.

This RFD is part of a proposal to remove 31 low-traffic former-INET
groups.  Please see article <1152814343.19576@isc.org>, available here:

    http://news.killfile.org/?group=news.announce.newgroups&number=1363

Note: the proposal to remove two of the 31 groups, comp.os.rsts and
comp.std.announce, has been withdrawn.


HISTORY: 

comp.edu.composition has existed as an INET group since at least 1987. It
was promoted to the standard Big 8 distribution in October 2000.


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups
  comp.edu.composition
  misc.writing


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2006-08-14     Results posted.
2006-08-08     3rd RFD (Last call for Comments)
2006-07-13     2nd ("comprehensive") RFD
2006-07-06     1st RFD