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<p>Created page with &#039;&lt;pre&gt; From: The Big-8 Management Board &lt;board@big-8.org&gt; Subject: RESULT: comp.laser-printers will be removed Newsgroups: misc.industry.printing, news.announce.newgroups, comp.l…&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;pre&gt;<br /> From: The Big-8 Management Board &lt;board@big-8.org&gt;<br /> Subject: RESULT: comp.laser-printers will be removed<br /> Newsgroups: misc.industry.printing, news.announce.newgroups,<br /> comp.laser-printers, news.groups.proposals, comp.periphs.printers<br /> Followup-To: news.groups.proposals<br /> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:39:00 -0600<br /> Organization: http://www.big-8.org/<br /> <br /> RESULT<br /> comp.laser-printers will be removed<br /> <br /> The Last Cal for Comments on 11 Jan 2006 initiated a five-day period for<br /> final comments. Following this comment period, the Big-8 Management Board<br /> has decided by a vote to remove the newsgroup comp.laser-printers.<br /> <br /> The vote was 9 in favor, 0 opposed, and 1 explicit abstention.<br /> <br /> This group will be removed on 25 Jan 2007.<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. There exists an unmoderated comp.periphs.printers<br /> (converted from Inet in 2002) which can be used for discussion of<br /> laser printers.<br /> <br /> Laser printers may also be discussed in groups such as the moderated<br /> misc.industry.printing (currently inactive) and the unmoderated<br /> comp.publish.prepress.<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 /> 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.periphs.printers<br /> <br /> The proponent will also post pointers to:<br /> <br /> comp.publish.prepress<br /> <br /> <br /> PROPONENT: <br /> <br /> Jim Riley &lt;jimrtex@pipeline.com&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> CHANGE HISTORY: <br /> <br /> 2007-01-18 Results (Passes)<br /> 2007-01-11 2nd RFD (Last Call for Comments)<br /> 2006-12-04 1st RFD (revised)<br /> 2006-11-28 1st RFD<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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