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Subject: RFD: remove comp.sys.next.announce moderated

From: Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>

Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:18:47 +0000 (UTC)

Message-ID: <nan.20070323191847$0f1c@killfile.org>



                      REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)

                     remove comp.sys.next.announce



This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated

newsgroup comp.sys.next.announce.





RATIONALE: remove comp.sys.next.announce



The last approved message was in January 2000.  NeXT sold their

hardware business in 1993, and were acquired by Apple in 1996.  Any

announcements about legacy hardware and software may be made in the

unmoderated groups of the comp.sys.next.* hierarchy.





HISTORY:



The newsgroup comp.sys.next.announce was created in July 1991 as part

of the reoranization of the comp.sys.next.* (CSN) hierarchy that

included creation of CSN.announce, CSN.sysadmin, CSN.programmer, and

CSN.misc (a rename of comp.sys.next).  CSN.advocacy, CSN.bugs,

CSN.hardware, CSN.marketplace, and CSN.software were created in

subsequent reorganizations.



Traffic peaked at a high of around 3 articles per day in 1993 and

1994, and gradually declined to slightly less one per day by 1999. The

last approvals were in January 2000.





CHARTER:



The newsgroup line is:



|comp.sys.next.announce	Announcements related to the NeXT computer system.



The charter (extracted from the CFV):



This group is for NeXT computer related announcements.  This includes,

but is not limited to user group meeting announcements, new products

relating specifically to the NeXT machine, and other information

announcements (such as the FAQ).





PROCEDURE: 



The full group removal procedure is documented here:



  http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup



Those who wish to comment on this request to remove this newsgroup should

subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in the relevant threads 

in that newsgroup.



To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to 

news.groups.proposals.



All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.proposals.



If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the discussion

may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be taken to ensure that

all discussion appears in news.groups.proposals as well.





DISTRIBUTION:



This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:



  news.announce.newgroups

  news.groups.proposals

  comp.sys.next.announce

  comp.sys.next.advocacy

  comp.sys.next.misc





PROPONENT: 



Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>





CHANGE HISTORY: 



2007-03-23     1st RFD

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