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From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> Subject: RESULT: rec.games.computer.doom.announce will be removed Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.doom.misc, news.announce.newgroups, rec.games.computer.doom.editing, rec.games.computer.doom.announce, news.groups.proposals Followup-To: news.groups.proposals Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:09:22 -0500 Organization: http://www.big-8.org/ RESULT rec.games.computer.doom.announce will be removed The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 17 Apr 2007 initiated a five-day period for final comments. Following the comment period, the Big-8 Management Board has decided by consensus to remove rec.games.computer.doom.announce. This group will be removed on 27 Apr 2007. RATIONALE: remove rec.games.computer.doom.announce The last approved regular article was in April 2000, with FAQs being posted until September 2000. There had been an earlier interruption that lasted from May 1997 until August 1998. After the restart, approvals were typically only 1 or 2 per month. Traffic in the entire rec.games.computer.doom.* hierarchy is extremely low, with fewer than 100 articles total in the past 12 months. HISTORY: The newsgroup rec.games.computer.doom.announce was created in November 1994 as part of the creation of the rec.games.computer.doom.* (RGCD) hierarchy. The entire hierarchy, including RGCD.announce, RGCD.editing, RGCD.help, RGCD.playing, and RGCD.misc were created at the same time. Traffic was extremely high for an announcement group with around 3 approved articles per day, with some decline over the next few years. Approvals were interrupted in May 1997. Moderation restarted in August 1998, but approvals other FAQs were light, less than 5 articles per month. The last approval of a regular article was in April 2000. FAQs continued to be posted until September 2000. DISTRIBUTION: This document has been posted to the following newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups news.groups.proposals rec.games.computer.doom.announce rec.games.computer.doom.misc rec.games.computer.doom.editing PROPONENT: Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com> CHANGE HISTORY: 2007-04-04 1st RFD 2007-04-17 2nd RFD/LCC 2007-04-24 Results (passes)