Nan:2025-03-28-rfd-comp.compression.research
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: Usenet Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups.proposals,comp.compression,comp.compression.research Subject: RFD: Remove comp.compression.research Followup-To: news.groups.proposals Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:34:53 EDT Message-ID: <vs74km$h4n$1@reader1.panix.com> Archive-Name: comp.compression.research This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated newsgroup comp.compression.research. Newsgroups Line: comp.compression.research Discussions about data compression research. Distribution: news.announce.newgroups news.groups.proposals comp.compression comp.compression.research Proponent: Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> Charter: comp.compression.research is for discussion about data compression research. Rationale for removal: The group currently doesn't have a working moderation system, so nobody can post. The last posts were made in 2012. Even some years prior the on-topic traffic was very low, so reviving it is rather unrealistic. The current moderator, Niels Fröhling, communicated to the Big-8 Management Board in December 2024 that he doesn't think he can moderate the group nowadays and that "closing the group is probably the best thing to do". The unmoderated group comp.compression exists and can be used to discuss the research of compression. https://groups.google.com/g/comp.compression.research History of the group: ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/comp/comp.compression.research.gz comp.compression.research was an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 312:10 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 19 Jun 1992. It was changed to moderated in 1993. It has been unused since 2012. Procedure: Those who wish to comment on this request to remove this newsgroup should subscribe to news:news.groups.proposals and participate in the relevant threads in that newsgroup. To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to news.groups.proposals. All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.proposals. If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the discussion may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be taken to ensure that all discussion appears in news.groups.proposals as well. For more information on the newsgroup removal process, please see https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Removing_newsgroups History of this RFD: 2025-03-28: 1st RFD (remove) -- Usenet Big-8 Management Board https://www.big-8.org/ board@big-8.org
