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<p>Created page with &#039;&lt;pre&gt; Subject: 2nd RFD: remove rec.aviation.questions moderated (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS) From: The Big-8 Management Board &lt;board@big-8.org&gt; Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:50:51 +0000 …&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;pre&gt;<br /> Subject: 2nd RFD: remove rec.aviation.questions moderated (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)<br /> From: The Big-8 Management Board &lt;board@big-8.org&gt;<br /> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:50:51 +0000 (UTC)<br /> Message-ID: &lt;nan.20070310055051$1cb6@killfile.org&gt;<br /> <br /> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)<br /> remove rec.aviation.questions<br /> <br /> This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated<br /> newsgroup rec.aviation.questions.<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.proposals.<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 /> <br /> SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:<br /> <br /> No comments were received. There was a parody RFD posted proposing<br /> removal of several unmoderated rec.aviation.newsgroups.<br /> <br /> <br /> RATIONALE: remove rec.aviation.questions<br /> <br /> The last approved message was in June 1994. The group was created in<br /> April 1994, and had less than 30 articles posted in its 3-month period<br /> of activity. It has been inactive the past 13 years.<br /> <br /> Over the next few years, there were occasional comments by a poster<br /> that they had attempted to post to rec.aviation.questions, but their<br /> question had not appeared.<br /> <br /> The original moderation scheme called for persons to submit their<br /> question to rec.aviation.questions. After a question was received, it<br /> would be directed to an &quot;answer-maven&quot;, who would prepare an answer to<br /> the question, possibly after additional research.<br /> <br /> The answer-maven would cross-post his answer to rec.aviation.questions<br /> and other relevant rec.aviation.* groups, with the original question<br /> quoted within the body of the answer message. Follow-on discussion<br /> could then occur in the unmoderated groups.<br /> <br /> If a new moderator were assigned, the moderation scheme might be<br /> modified such that legitimate questions would be be posted directly to<br /> rec.aviation.questions with any persons interested in answering<br /> responding directly in the group. Moderation could concentrate on<br /> keeping any ensuing discussion focused on the original questions.<br /> <br /> While the group could plausibly be converted to an unmoderated status,<br /> it might simply serve as an additional group in a cross-post.<br /> <br /> Note: There are also proposals to remove rec.aviation.answers and<br /> rec.aviation.announce. Each proposal will be considered<br /> independently.<br /> <br /> <br /> HISTORY: <br /> <br /> The newsgroup rec.aviation.questions was created in April 1994, and<br /> had 11 approved articles in April, 12 articles in May, and 5 articles<br /> in June. It has been idle for the past 13 years.<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 /> rec.aviation.questions<br /> rec.aviation.announce<br /> rec.aviation.misc<br /> <br /> The proponent will also post pointers to:<br /> <br /> rec.aviation.ifr<br /> rec.aviation.owning<br /> rec.aviation.piloting<br /> rec.aviation.student<br /> <br /> <br /> CHARTER:<br /> <br /> The newsgroup line is:<br /> <br /> rec.aviation.questions Aviation questions and answers.<br /> <br /> The charter (from the CFV):<br /> <br /> The charter of rec.aviation.questions is to receive questions on<br /> aviation which might be answered in an simple and reasonably<br /> authoritative manner by one or a few of the many knowledgeable<br /> individuals we have on the net. Such questions, along with their<br /> answers, will be posted as a single article, to rec.aviation.questions<br /> and will be cross-posted to the appropriate unmoderated rec.aviation<br /> subgroup(s). This process will avoid having such questions answered<br /> many, many times by well-intentioned readers, sometimes correctly and<br /> sometimes incorrectly. Interested netters will be able to follow up<br /> to the original question and answer posting in the normal manner;<br /> these follow-ups will be directed to the appropriate unmoderated<br /> rec.aviation subgroup(s).<br /> <br /> <br /> PROPONENT: <br /> <br /> Jim Riley &lt;jimrtex@pipeline.com&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> CHANGE HISTORY: <br /> <br /> 2007-02-26 1st RFD<br /> 2007-03-09 2nd RFD/LCC<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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