Nan:2007-02-12-soc.religion.vaishnava-lcc

From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: 2nd RFD: remove soc.religion.vaishnava moderated (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, soc.religion.vaishnava,
 humanities.language.sanskrit, news.groups.proposals, soc.religion.hindu
Followup-To: news.groups.proposals
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:21:05 -0600
Organization: http://www.big-8.org/

                      REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
                     remove soc.religion.vaishnava

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated
newsgroup soc.religion.vaishnava.


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.proposals.

The full group removal procedure is documented here:

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


SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:

No comments were received.


RATIONALE: remove soc.religion.vaishnava

The newsgroup soc.religion.vaishnava has not had any approved messages
since March 1998.  After its creation in 1996, the group was active
for slightly over 2 years.  It has been inactive for the past 9 years.

Conceivably, the group could be converted to an unmoderated status.
But one of the reasons for moderation in the first place was to block
gross abuse of discussion by Jay Stevens (aka Jai Maharaj).  The group
was robomoderated, with provisions against cross-posting; more than 4
articles per 24 hours; or posting with Subjects in all caps.

It might be possible to reinsitute robomoderation, but any such
moderation should be expected to deal with attempts by Jay Stevens to
flood the group or circumvent the moderation of the group.  It might
also be possible to institute conventional hand moderation.

The lack of support for creation for soc.religion.vaishnava.dvaita
(see History) may indicate a lack of interest in the revival of
soc.religion.vaishnava.


HISTORY: 

The newsgroup soc.religion.vaishnava was created in January 1996.  It
was active for slightly over 2 years, until March 1998.

In August 1999, a proposal was made to create
soc.religion.vaishnava.dvaita.  Part of the rationale for the proposed
group, was the inactivity of soc.religion.vaishnava and
soc.religion.hindu.  The proposal for the new group failed for lack of
support (90:38).


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups.proposals
  soc.religion.vaishnava
  soc.religion.hindu
  humanities.language.sanskrit


CHARTER:

The newsgroup line is:

soc.religion.vaishnava	All aspects of Vishnu and Vaishnavism.

The charter (in part) extracted from the CFV:

The newsgroup soc.religion.vaishnava will be an auto-moderated forum
for discussion of all topics having a bearing on the study of, and
devotion to, Vishnu, the Supreme Lord. General topics will include,
but will not be restricted to, scripture and its interpretation
according to various Vaishnava schools, the lives, works, and
teachings of various prominent Aachaaryas, and issues relating to
devotion and the study of Vaishnava doctrine.


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2007-02-01     1st RFD
2007-02-12     2nd RFD/LCC