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From: Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com> Subject: RFD: remove comp.sources.reviewed moderated (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, comp.sources.reviewed, comp.sources.d Followup-To: news.groups Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:54:01 -0700 REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) remove comp.sources.reviewed This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated newsgroup comp.sources.reviewed. PROCEDURE: The B8MB plans to begin voting on this proposal after five days. Please offer any final discussion or comments before the end of this waiting period. Voting may take up to one week (7 days); a result will be posted following the end of the voting period. All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups. The full (draft) group removal procedure is documented here: http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION: There were no comments made. RATIONALE: remove comp.sources.reviewed The last approved message was in October 1994. There are other more suitable means of distributing program sources, so comp.sources.reviewed is not a suitable candidate for conversion to an unmoderated newsgroup. HISTORY: The newsgroup comp.sources.reviewed was created in April 1991, with the first approved message in MAY 1991. The charter (from the CFV) was: "Comp.sources.reviewed" is a moderated newsgroup for the distribution of program sources that have been subjected to a Peer Review process. Similar to the process used for academic journals, submissions are sent to a moderator who then sends the sources to Peer Review volunteers for evaluation. The Reviewers are asked to provided a timely evaluation of the software by compiling and running it on their machine. If time does not permit them to complete a review, they are responsible for asking the moderator to select another reviewer. If the Moderator and Peer Reviewers judge a submission to be acceptable, the sources will be posted along with the written comments provided by the Reviewers. If a submission is not found to be acceptable, the submitter will be provided with the Reviewers' comments, and they will have the option of addressing those comments and submitting the sources again. DISTRIBUTION: This document has been posted to the following newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups news.groups comp.sources.reviewed comp.sources.d PROPONENT: Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com> CHANGE HISTORY: 2006-07-06 2nd RFD (Last Call for Comments) 2006-06-26 RFD posted 2006-06-16 RFD received