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<p>Created page with &#039;&lt;pre&gt;From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board) Subject: 3rd RFD: remove comp.terminals.bitgraph and comp.terminals.tty5620 (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS) Newsgroups: news.anno…&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;pre&gt;From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)<br /> Subject: 3rd RFD: remove comp.terminals.bitgraph and comp.terminals.tty5620 (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)<br /> Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, comp.terminals.bitgraph,<br /> comp.terminals.tty5620, comp.terminals<br /> Followup-To: news.groups<br /> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:07:27 -0700<br /> <br /> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)<br /> remove comp.terminals.bitgraph<br /> remove comp.terminals.tty5620<br /> <br /> This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the newsgroups <br /> comp.terminals.bitgraph and comp.terminals.tty5620.<br /> <br /> <br /> PROCEDURE:<br /> <br /> The B8MB plans to begin voting on this proposal after five days. Please<br /> offer any final discussion or comments before the end of this waiting<br /> period. Voting may take up to one week (7 days); a result will be posted<br /> following the end of the voting period.<br /> <br /> All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.<br /> <br /> The full (draft) group removal procedure is documented here:<br /> <br /> http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:<br /> <br /> No comments were received. There was one on-topic post to<br /> comp.terminals.tty5620 during the discussion period (which has so far not<br /> received an answer).<br /> <br /> <br /> RATIONALE: remove comp.terminals-reorg<br /> <br /> comp.terminals.bitgraph has not had any on-topic messages in the past 11<br /> months. The terminal may be discussed in comp.terminals.<br /> <br /> comp.terminals.tty5620 has had 3 sales related message in the past 11<br /> months, though they appear to be more relate to the 3B2 than the<br /> terminal. The terminal may be discussed in comp.terminals.<br /> <br /> This RFD is part of a proposal to remove 31 low-traffic former-INET<br /> groups. Please see article &lt;1152814343.19576@isc.org&gt;, available here:<br /> <br /> http://news.killfile.org/?group=news.announce.newgroups&amp;number=1363<br /> <br /> Note: the proposal to remove two of the 31 groups, comp.os.rsts and<br /> comp.std.announce, has been withdrawn.<br /> <br /> <br /> HISTORY:<br /> <br /> comp.terminals.bitgraph and comp.terminals.tty5620 have existed as INET groups<br /> at least since 1987. They were promoted to the standard Big 8 distribution in<br /> October 2000.<br /> <br /> <br /> DISTRIBUTION:<br /> <br /> This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:<br /> <br /> news.announce.newgroups<br /> news.groups<br /> comp.terminals.bitgraph<br /> comp.terminals.tty5620<br /> comp.terminals<br /> <br /> <br /> CHARTER:<br /> <br /> The newsgroup lines are:<br /> <br /> comp.terminals.bitgraph The BB&amp;N BitGraph Terminal.<br /> comp.terminals.tty5620 AT&amp;T Dot Mapped Display Terminals (5620 and BLIT).<br /> <br /> <br /> PROPONENT:<br /> <br /> Jim Riley &lt;jimrtex@pipeline.com&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> CHANGE HISTORY:<br /> <br /> 2006-08-17 3rd RFD (Last Call for Comments)<br /> 2006-07-13 2nd (&quot;comprehensive&quot;) RFD<br /> 2006-07-06 1st RFD<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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