Nan:2007-04-24-rec.games.computer.doom.announce-result

From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RESULT: rec.games.computer.doom.announce will be removed
Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.doom.misc, news.announce.newgroups,
 rec.games.computer.doom.editing, rec.games.computer.doom.announce,
 news.groups.proposals
Followup-To: news.groups.proposals
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:09:22 -0500
Organization: http://www.big-8.org/

                                 RESULT
            rec.games.computer.doom.announce will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 17 Apr 2007 initiated a five-day period
for final comments.  Following the comment period, the Big-8 Management Board
has decided by consensus to remove rec.games.computer.doom.announce.

This group will be removed on 27 Apr 2007.


RATIONALE: remove rec.games.computer.doom.announce

The last approved regular article was in April 2000, with FAQs being
posted until September 2000.  There had been an earlier interruption
that lasted from May 1997 until August 1998.  After the restart,
approvals were typically only 1 or 2 per month.  Traffic in the entire
rec.games.computer.doom.* hierarchy is extremely low, with fewer than
100 articles total in the past 12 months.


HISTORY: 

The newsgroup rec.games.computer.doom.announce was created in November
1994 as part of the creation of the rec.games.computer.doom.* (RGCD)
hierarchy.  The entire hierarchy, including RGCD.announce,
RGCD.editing, RGCD.help, RGCD.playing, and RGCD.misc were created at
the same time.

Traffic was extremely high for an announcement group with around 3
approved articles per day, with some decline over the next few years.
Approvals were interrupted in May 1997.  Moderation restarted in
August 1998, but approvals other FAQs were light, less than 5 articles
per month.  The last approval of a regular article was in April 2000.
FAQs continued to be posted until September 2000.


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups.proposals
  rec.games.computer.doom.announce
  rec.games.computer.doom.misc
  rec.games.computer.doom.editing


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2007-04-04     1st RFD
2007-04-17     2nd RFD/LCC
2007-04-24     Results (passes)