Nan:2007-03-10-rec.aviation.announce-lcc
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Subject: 2nd RFD: remove rec.aviation.announce moderated (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS) From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:49:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <nan.20070310054919$4576@news.killfile.org> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) remove rec.aviation.announce This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated newsgroup rec.aviation.announce. 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 discussion offered RATIONALE: remove rec.aviation.announce The last approved article was in January 1999. In the prior two years traffic had greatly declined, with two periods of 6-months with no approvals. With such a light volume, any announcements of fly-ins, etc. can be made directly in unmoderated rec.aviation.* groups. An an announcement group it would be inappropriate to convert the group to an unmoderated status. HISTORY: The newsgroup rec.aviation.announce was created in September 1992, as part of a re-organization of rec.aviation into 13 newsgroups (rec.aviation.announce (ra.announce); ra.answers; ra.homebuilt; ra.ifr; ra.military; ra.misc; ra.owning; ra.piloting; ra.products; ra.simulators; ra.soaring; ra.stories; and ra.student). Approvals per year were: 1992, 1 article; 1993, 30 articles; 1994, 91 articles; 1995, 13 articles (8 month interruption); 1996, 52 articles; 1997, 16 articles; 1998, 22 articles; and 1999, 2 articles. The last approval was in June 1999. DISTRIBUTION: This document has been posted to the following newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups news.groups.proposals rec.aviation.announce rec.aviation.misc rec.aviation.piloting The proponent will also post pointers to: rec.aviation.aerobatics rec.aviation.homebuilt rec.aviation.military rec.aviation.owning rec.aviation.student CHARTER: The newsgroup line is: rec.aviation.announce Events of interest to the aviation community. The charter (periodically posted to the group) is: Dissemination of events of interest to the rec.aviation community, including fly-outs, airshows, museum events, safety seminars, conventions, races, rec.aviation administrative issues etc. The group will be moderated to minimize volume. PROPONENT: Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com> CHANGE HISTORY: 2007-02-26 1st RFD 2007-03-09 2nd RFD/LCC