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From: Jim Riley<br />
Date: Thurs, Oct 26 2006 1:58 pm<br />
Email: Jim Riley <jimriley@pipeline.com><br />
Groups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, misc.education.multimedia, misc.education, comp.multimedia<br />
Followup-To: news.groups<br />
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REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)<br />
remove misc.education.multimedia<br />
<br />
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated<br />
newsgroup misc.education.multimedia.<br />
<br />
RATIONALE: remove misc.education.multimedia<br />
<br />
There have been no approved messages since January 1997. This group<br />
may be a candidate for conversion to a status of unmoderated, or the<br />
assignment of a new moderator.<br />
<br />
"multimedia" is somewhat of a spam magnet, and the use of multimedia<br />
in education too diffuse of a topic for an unmoderated newsgroup to<br />
work.<br />
<br />
When the group was actively moderated, a large share of the content<br />
was announcments of multimedia products, and increasing of web sites,<br />
so hand moderation might be necessary to provide a forum for<br />
discussion and posting of questions about resources.<br />
<br />
HISTORY:<br />
<br />
The newsgroup misc.education.multimedia was created in March 1994.<br />
Traffic was fairly steady (50-150) messages per month, until September<br />
1996, when there was an interruption. In mid-October, there was an<br />
apology from the moderator, indicating that he had been trying an<br />
automated script that hadn't actually posted the messages, followed<br />
by posting of a month's worth of messages. There were then no more<br />
messages until January 1997, when 10 a final messages were posted.<br />
<br />
In June 1997, there was some discussion about trying to revive the<br />
group. One of the participants indicated that he had tried to contact<br />
the moderator without success.<br />
<br />
PROCEDURE:<br />
<br />
The full group removal procedure is documented here:<br />
<br />
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup<br />
<br />
Those who wish to comment on this request to remove this newsgroup should<br />
subscribe to news.groups and participate in the relevant threads in that<br />
newsgroup.<br />
<br />
To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to news.groups.<br />
<br />
All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.<br />
<br />
If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the discussion<br />
may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be taken to ensure that<br />
all discussion appears in news.groups as well.<br />
<br />
DISTRIBUTION:<br />
<br />
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:<br />
<br />
news.announce.newgroups<br />
news.groups<br />
misc.education.multimedia<br />
misc.education<br />
comp.multimedia<br />
<br />
PROPONENT:<br />
<br />
Jim Riley <jimr...@pipeline.com><br />
<br />
CHANGE HISTORY:<br />
<br />
2006-10-26 1st RFD <br />
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