Nan:2010-03-02-result-comp.windows.x.announce

From: Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RESULT: comp.windows.x.announce will be removed
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:12:57 EST
Message-ID: <hmi5vg$kml$1@news.albasani.net>

                              RESULT
              comp.windows.x.announce will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 2010-02-21 initiated a five-day
period for final comments.  Following this comment period, the Big-8
Management Board has decided by vote to remove moderated group
comp.windows.x.announce.

Vote results (yes-no-abstain): 10-0-0

RATIONALE:

Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.

  <comp-windows-x-announce@moderators.isc.org>: host
      moderators.individual.net[130.133.4.7] said: 550-Callout verification
      failed: 550 550 5.1.1 <kaleb@ics.com>... User unknown
      (in reply to RCPT TO command)

  kaleb@ics.com
    (generated from comp-windows-x-announce@moderators.isc.org)
    SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<kaleb@ics.com>:
    host mail-relay.ics.com [66.238.211.190]: 550 5.1.1 <kaleb@ics.com>...
    User unknown

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

comp.windows.x.announce	X Window System announcements. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.windows.x.announce
comp.windows.x

CHARTER OF COMP.WINDOWS.X.ANNOUNCE

This group will be moderated by the staff of X Consortium, Inc.
Traffic will be limited to major X announcements, such as the
following:

  Public Review of a proposed X Consortium standard
  Adoption of a new X Consortium standard
  Upcoming public X conferences, exhibitions, or meetings
  A new release of a major public system, toolkit, or application
  A major patch or modification to X software

The moderator will reject messages on these subjects:

  Advertisements for commercial products
  Questions about anything

There is a two-way gateway between comp.windows.x.announce and the
mailing list xannounce@x.org.  Messages appearing here will also
appear on the mailing list xpert@x.org (but NOT on the newsgroup
comp.windows.x).

It is intended that traffic will be low enough that everyone with any
interest in X will subscribe.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

comp.windows.x.announce is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 602:18 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 22 Jun 1994.

PROPONENT:

Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

CHANGE HISTORY:

2009-10-29	First probe post
2010-01-10	Moderator Vacancy Investigation
2010-01-24	1st RFD
2010-02-06	2nd RFD
2010-02-21	LCC
2010-03-02	RESULT