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<p>Created page with &#039;&lt;pre&gt; From: Jim Riley &lt;jimrtex@pipeline.com&gt; Subject: RFD: remove comp.laser-printers moderated Newsgroups: misc.industry.printing, news.announce.newgroups, comp.publish.prepres…&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;pre&gt;<br /> From: Jim Riley &lt;jimrtex@pipeline.com&gt;<br /> Subject: RFD: remove comp.laser-printers moderated<br /> Newsgroups: misc.industry.printing, news.announce.newgroups,<br /> comp.publish.prepress, comp.laser-printers, news.groups.proposals<br /> Followup-To: news.groups.proposals<br /> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:09:43 -0600<br /> Organization: http://www.big-8.org/<br /> <br /> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)<br /> remove comp.laser-printers<br /> <br /> This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated<br /> newsgroup comp.laser-printers.<br /> <br /> <br /> RATIONALE: remove comp.laser-printers<br /> <br /> The group has not been active since May 1991. Prior to that, there<br /> were typically 10 to 30 approvals per month. May 1991 may have been<br /> the end of laser-lovers mailing list which was gated to the newsgroup<br /> (an empty archive has a last update in May 1991).<br /> <br /> Between May 1991 and July 1997 there were less than 2 dozen articles<br /> in the Google/DejaNews archive. Some of these may have self=approved<br /> or unapproved articles that made it into the archive.<br /> <br /> While the topic of the group may be suitable for an unmoderated<br /> newsgroup, the current group is poorly named, creating an orphan<br /> sub-hierarchy. Possible names are comp.periphs.laser-printers or<br /> comp.periphs.printers.lasers. It should be noted that there is no<br /> comp.periphs.printers.<br /> <br /> <br /> HISTORY: <br /> <br /> The Arpanet mailing list laser-lovers was gated to fa.laser-lovers in<br /> November 1983. In November 1985, the gateway was changed to the<br /> newsgroup mod.computers.laser-printers. In April 1987, that group was<br /> renamed to comp.laser-printers as part of the Great Renaming.<br /> <br /> Activity on comp.laser-printers and its two predecessors averaged from<br /> 10 to 30 articles from November 1983 to May 1991. In 1991, regular<br /> approvals stopped, which may have also marked the demise of the<br /> laser-lovers mailing list. There may have been a few (less than 20<br /> approvals after that time).<br /> <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.proposals and participate in the relevant threads <br /> in that newsgroup.<br /> <br /> To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to <br /> news.groups.proposals.<br /> <br /> All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.proposals.<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.proposals as well.<br /> <br /> <br /> DISTRIBUTION:<br /> <br /> This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:<br /> <br /> news.announce.newgroups<br /> news.groups.proposals<br /> comp.laser-printers<br /> misc.industry.printing<br /> comp.publish.prepress<br /> <br /> <br /> PROPONENT: <br /> <br /> Jim Riley &lt;jimrtex@pipeline.com&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> CHANGE HISTORY: <br /> <br /> 2006-12-04 1st RFD (revised)<br /> 2006-11-28 1st RFD<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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