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<p>Created page with &#039;&lt;pre&gt; From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board) Subject: 2nd RFD: remove comp.infosystems.announce moderated (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups…&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;pre&gt;<br /> From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)<br /> Subject: 2nd RFD: remove comp.infosystems.announce moderated (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)<br /> Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, comp.infosystems.announce,<br /> comp.infosystems.gopher, news.admin.announce<br /> Followup-To: news.groups<br /> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:51:53 -0700<br /> <br /> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)<br /> remove comp.infosystems.announce<br /> <br /> This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated<br /> newsgroup comp.infosystems.announce.<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 /> SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:<br /> <br /> No comments were received.<br /> <br /> <br /> RATIONALE: remove comp.infosystems.announce<br /> <br /> The last approved message was in January 1995. See History for details.<br /> <br /> This group may be a candidate for revival with a new moderator. If there is a<br /> new moderator, the group should avoid announcements about the WWW, and<br /> concentrate on lesser known services such as Gopher, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP. That<br /> the group and its moderator were swamped by WWW site anouncements may have led<br /> to its demise.<br /> <br /> <br /> HISTORY: <br /> <br /> The newsgroup comp.infosystems.announce was created in January 1994. It was<br /> originally proposed as comp.infosystems.gopher.announce, but was changed to a<br /> more general scope as a result of discussion.<br /> <br /> In practice, a large portion of its content of roughly 50 to 100 articles per<br /> month were announcements of various websites.<br /> <br /> During the latter part of its only year of activity,<br /> comp.infosystems.www.announce was proposed. Part of the rationale for the new<br /> group was that the moderator of comp.infosystem.announce was not making timely<br /> approvals; and this was resulting in people posting website announcements to the<br /> unmoderated comp.infosystems.www.* groups. An article was also posted urging<br /> people to vote for the new groups, along with a claim that the moderator of<br /> comp.infosystems.announce had been asked to participate, but had not responded.<br /> <br /> One week after the first articles in comp.infosystems.www.announce were posted,<br /> comp.infosystems.announce posted its last article.<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.infosystems.announce<br /> comp.infosystems.gopher<br /> news.admin.announce<br /> <br /> The proponent will also post pointers to:<br /> <br /> comp.infosystems.harvest<br /> comp.infosystems.wais<br /> comp.infosystems.www.announce<br /> news.software.nntp<br /> <br /> <br /> CHARTER:<br /> <br /> The newsgroup line is:<br /> <br /> comp.infosystems.announce Announcements of internet information services.<br /> <br /> The charter for the group (from the Results posting) is:<br /> ============================================================================<br /> CHARTER<br /> <br /> comp.infosystems.announce is a moderated news group for announcements of<br /> internet information tools and services. Announcements may be of the release of<br /> new software packages or of new services such as new and updated servers for<br /> Gopher, WWW, WAIS and similar information systems. It is planned to establish<br /> archive servers for this newsgroup.<br /> ============================================================================<br /> <br /> <br /> PROPONENT: <br /> <br /> Jim Riley &lt;jimrtex@pipeline.com&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> CHANGE HISTORY: <br /> <br /> 2006-10-05 2nd RFD/LCC<br /> 2006-09-21 1st RFD<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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