Nan:2006-08-14-explorer-lcc

From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)
Subject: 3rd RFD: remove comp.sys.ti.explorer (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, comp.sys.ti.explorer,
 comp.sys.ti
Followup-To: news.groups
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:52:22 -0700

                      REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
                      remove comp.sys.ti.explorer

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the 
newsgroup comp.sys.ti.explorer.


PROCEDURE:

The B8MB plans to begin voting on this proposal after five days.  Please
offer any final discussion or comments before the end of this waiting
period.  Voting may take up to one week (7 days); a result will be posted
following the end of the voting period.

All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.

The full (draft) group removal procedure is documented here:

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



SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:

One person suggested that since "there are at least two emulators nearing
completion"; and "there are also a few tens of real systems that might
appear from what was formerly SwissAir", that traffic might pick up.


RATIONALE: remove comp.sys.ti.explorer

comp.sys.ti.explorer has had one on-topic message in the past 11 months.
Anything specific to the TI Explorer can be posted to comp.sys.ti.

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comp.std.announce, has been withdrawn.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.sys.ti.explorer has existed as an INET group at least since 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.sys.ti.explorer
  comp.sys.ti


CHARTER:

The newsgroup line is:

comp.sys.ti.explorer	The Texas Instruments Explorer.


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>



CHANGE HISTORY: 

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