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From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

Subject: 1st RFD: rec.arts.books.excerpts moderated (remove)

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 23:00:05 EDT

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              REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)

              moderated group rec.arts.books.excerpts



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

newsgroup rec.arts.books.excerpts.



RATIONALE:



According to Google's archive the last regular post was approved on

2005-12-08. A probe message showed no result.



NEWSGROUPS LINE:



rec.arts.books.excerpts	Online book excerpts. (Moderated)



DISTRIBUTION:



news.announce.newgroups

news.groups.proposals

rec.arts.books.excerpts

rec.arts.books



CHARTER OF REC.ARTS.BOOKS.EXCERPTS



rec.arts.books.excerpts is a place to post and discuss excerpts

from books or links to online book excerpts. This forum allows

readers to share the free book excerpts that they find online

with other readers and to discuss them. Authors and publishers

can share excerpts from upcoming titles with readers and get

feedback. Links to entire works online are acceptable.



Moderation will ensure that the newsgroup is not abused by

commercial entities for promotional purposes and that

discussion remains on-topic. Binary messages are banned except

for small PGP-type signatures.



Promotional messages or ads for a book that do not include or

link to a freely available excerpt from the book are prohibited.

Personal attacks and other abusive content will be deemed off

topic and will not be tolerated.



Crossposting to other appropriate newsgroups will be acceptable

where the topic of the post fits with the other group's charter.



Compliance with copyright laws is the responsibility of the

poster. The moderators will have no personal responsibility

for content and reserve the right to reject unsuitable posts.



Moderation: The moderator may appoint co-moderators to approve or

reject posts to minimize delays in propagation. Rejected posts may

be returned to the sender for correction at the discretion of the

moderator. The moderator may place trusted posters on a "white

list" for automated approval of their posts.  Personal attacks or

abusive content, for example, may result in an approved poster

being removed from the white list.



HISTORY OF THE GROUP:



rec.arts.books.excerpts is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for

creation by 112:9 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 5 Sep 2003.



PROPONENT:



Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>



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 rec.arts.books.excerpts 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:



2010-04-05	Probe post

2010-05-18	Moderator Vacancy Investigation

2010-06-09	1st RFD

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