Nan:2025-10-10-rfd-comp.unix.bsd

From: Usenet Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups.proposals,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Followup-To: news.groups.proposals
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:22:36 EDT
Message-ID: <10cb4ks$37p$1@reader2.panix.com>
Archive-Name: comp.unix.bsd-reorg

This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the following
unmoderated newsgroups.

comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc


DISTRIBUTION:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.unix.misc
comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc


PROPONENT: Marco Moock <mmoock@big-8.org>


RATIONALE:

There are various groups in comp.unix.* that are not used regularly.

I propose to delete groups that are not used well and to direct the
people to more general groups like comp.unix.misc in case they want to
discuss the topics they special groups covered.
If people declare interest in using them, I suggest to not delete them.


GROUPS:

comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
386BSD operating system.

History:
comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc is a unmoderated newsgroup which passed its
vote for creation by 285:87 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on
22 Feb 1995.  This groups supersedes the unmoderated groups in the
comp.os.386bsd hierarchy, which will all be removed on 26 May 1995.

Charter:
Discussion about 386bsd which does not fall into the area
of coverage of any of the other 386bsd groups.  Things
posted here should not be crossposted to the other 386bsd
groups.

Rationale:
Last on-topic message from 2010.
This operating system isn't developed anymore.
If there is need for discussion, more general groups can be used.


comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
BSD/OS operating system.

History:
comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc is a unmoderated newsgroup which passed its
vote for creation by 305:69 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on
22 Feb 1995.

Charter:
Discussion about BSD/OS which does not fall into the area
of coverage of any of the other bsdi groups.  Things posted
here should not be crossposted to the other bsdi groups.

Rationale:
Last on-topic discussion in 2015
This operating system isn't developed anymore.
If there is need for discussion, more general groups can be used.


PROCEDURE:

Those who wish to comment on this request to remove this newsgroup
should subscribe to news: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.

For more information on the newsgroup removal process, please see
https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Removing_newsgroups


HISTORY OF THIS RFD:

2025-10-10: 1st RFD (remove)


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