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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.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce will be removed Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc, news.announce.newgroups, co…&#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.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce will be removed<br /> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc, news.announce.newgroups,<br /> comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce, news.groups.proposals,<br /> comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc<br /> Followup-To: news.groups.proposals<br /> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:37:36 -0500<br /> Organization: http://www.big-8.org/<br /> <br /> RESULT<br /> comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce will be removed<br /> <br /> The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 17 Sep 2007 initiated a five-day<br /> period for final comments. Following the comment period, the Big-8<br /> Management board has decided by consensus to remove the newsgroup<br /> comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce.<br /> <br /> This group will be removed on 30 Sep 2007.<br /> <br /> <br /> RATIONALE: remove comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce<br /> <br /> The last approval was in June 2000. BSD/OS was sold by BSDi to Wind<br /> River Systems in April 2001. Sales were discontinued at the end of<br /> 2003, with support discontinue in 2004.<br /> <br /> Over the past 12 months, only 20 articles were posted to the<br /> associated discussion group comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc, and all but one<br /> were cross-posted to other comp.unix.bsd.* groups. The one<br /> non-cross-posted article specified that the poster used FreeBSD Unix.<br /> <br /> The last moderator agreed that there was no reason to keep the group<br /> around, and that it had been several years since he had received a<br /> non-spam submission.<br /> <br /> <br /> HISTORY: <br /> <br /> The newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce was created in February 1995<br /> as part of a comp.unix.bsd.* reorganization that also created<br /> comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc.<br /> <br /> The last approval was in June 2000. Over the roughly 5 years of<br /> activity about 100 articles were approved.<br /> <br /> <br /> DISTRIBUTION:<br /> <br /> This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:<br /> <br /> news.announce.newgroups (moderated)<br /> news.groups.proposals (moderated)<br /> comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce (moderated)<br /> comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc<br /> comp.unix.bsd.misc<br /> <br /> <br /> PROPONENT: <br /> <br /> Jim Riley &lt;jimrtex@pipeline.com&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> CHANGE HISTORY: <br /> <br /> 2007-06-15 1st RFD<br /> 2007-09-17 2nd RFD/LCC<br /> 2007-09-17 Results (passes)<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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