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The Usenet Big-8 Management Board

creates well-named, well-used newsgroups in the Big-8 Usenet hierarchies,
makes necessary adjustments to existing groups,
removes groups that are not well-used, and
assists and encourages the support of a canonical Big-8 newsgroup list by Usenet sites.

Latest news

2024-04-10: MODERATOR FOUND: news.admin.technical
2024-03-28: MODERATOR FOUND: comp.programming.literate
2024-02-27: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: news.admin.technical
2024-02-12: MODERATOR FOUND: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
2024-01-15: 2nd RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting - LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS
2023-12-22: 2nd RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting
2023-12-01: RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting
2023-10-07: RESULT: comp.lang.go will be created
2023-09-28: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
2023-09-25: 2nd RFD: comp.lang.go (create) - LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS (revised)
2023-09-22: 2nd RFD: comp.lang.go (create) - LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS
2023-09-18: Big-8 covered in The Register, TechSpot
2023-07-04: 1st RFD: comp.lang.go (create)
2023-04-22: Video of LibrePlanet 2023 talk now available

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