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Subject: RFD: remove comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce moderated

From: Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>

Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:48:52 +0000 (UTC)

Message-ID: <nan.20070404144852$1e93@killfile.org>



                      REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)

                 remove comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce



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

newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce.





RATIONALE: remove comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce



The last approved was in January 2000.  For the final two years of

activity, all articles were "Internet PC Game Charts".  The Game

Charts were apparently posted and approved by their author (presumably

with consent of the regular moderator).  The last Game Chart (number

369) announced the impending launch of a web site dedicated to the

charts.



The last approval of an ordinary article was in August 1998.  There

had been a previous interruption from May 1996 to November 1996, in

which only the Game Charts had been approved.



While the group was active, approvals were roughly 1 to 2 per day,

though it appears that approvals were often batched with many occuring

on the same day.



If there is an interested person, the group could be assigned a new

moderator.  There may enough interest to justify reactivating the

group.  On the other hand, perhaps posters and readers have gotten out

of the habit of using comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce, and moved on to

web-based forums.





HISTORY:



The newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce was created in April 1993

as part of a reorganization of the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.* (CSIPG)

hierarchy, that saw creation of CSIPG.announce, CSIPG.action,

CSIPG.adventure, CSIPG.flight-sim, CSIPG.rpg, CSIPG.strategic, and

CSIPG.misc (rename of comp.sys.ibm.pc.games).  Subsequently, the

following groups in the hierarchy were created CSIPG.marketplace,

CSIPG.naval, CSIPG.space-sim, CSIPG.sports, and CSIPG.wat-historical.



Approvals averaged one to two approvals per day for most of the active

period of the group (this is an average rate, since approvals were

often batches).  There was an interruption of regular approvals from

May 1996 to November 1996, and a stoppage beginning in August 1998

until the present.  During the initial interruption, and continuing

until January 2000, there were weekly posts of "Internet PC Game

Charts".  There have been no approvals of any sort since January 2000.





CHARTER:



The newsgroup line is:



comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce	Announcements for all PC gamers.



The charter (extracted from the CFV):



This moderated group is for announcements that are useful to the

entire PC computer gaming population, including but not limited to new

release announcements, software publisher news, bug information,

reviews and GAME BYTES information.  Followups will be directed to

misc or another appropriate subgroup at the moderator's discretion.





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.ibm.pc.games.announce

  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical

  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure



The proponent will also post pointers to:



  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim

  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.naval

  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg

  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim

  comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic





PROPONENT: 



Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>





CHANGE HISTORY: 



2007-04-04     1st RFD

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