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From: Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>

Subject: RFD: comp.lang.visual moderated (remove) LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:28:13 EST

Message-ID: <hg3qbn$2rc$1@news.albasani.net>





              REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)

              moderated group comp.lang.visual



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

newsgroup comp.lang.visual.



NEWSGROUPS LINE:



comp.lang.visual	General discussion of visual programming languages. (Moderated)



DISTRIBUTION:



news.announce.newgroups

news.groups.proposals

comp.lang.visual



PROPONENT:



Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>



CHARTER OF COMP.LANG.VISUAL



    A forum for general discussion of visual programming languages.  A

working definition of visual programming languages is posted in the

regular comp.lang.visual FAQ.  Non-visual aspects of the Visual Basic and

Visual C++ environments, products of Microsoft, Inc., are not legal

discussion topics for comp.lang.visual.

    This is a moderation of the existing group comp.lang.visual.



RATIONALE:



Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.



<comp-lang-visual@moderators.isc.org>: host

    moderators.individual.net[130.133.4.7] said: 550 all relevant MX records

    point to non-existent hosts (in reply to RCPT TO command)



HISTORY OF THE GROUP:



comp.lang.visual is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for

creation by 359:24 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 14 Dec 1994.



PROCEDURE:



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.



In the course of the removal process four formal announcements are posted

(MVI, 1st RFD, 2nd RFD, and LCC), each taking two weeks. At the end of the

process the B8MB will vote on the issue.



Available options for comp.lang.visual are:

- leave the group as it is

- remove the group



For more information on the MVI process, please see 



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



CHANGE HISTORY:



2009-10-29	Probe post bounced

2009-11-01	Moderator Vacancy Investigation

2009-11-15	1st RFD

2009-11-29	2nd RFD

2009-12-13	LCC

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