Nan:2006-08-11-isoc-lcc

From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)
Subject: 3rd RFD: remove comp.org.isoc.interest (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, comp.org.isoc.interest,
 comp.protocols.misc, comp.infosystems, news.software.nntp
Followup-To: news.groups
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:39:59 -0700

                      REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
                     remove comp.org.isoc.interest

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the unmoderated
newsgroup comp.org.isoc.interest.


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:

No comments were received.


RATIONALE: remove comp.org.isoc.interest

comp.org.isoc.interest has had no on-topic messages in the past 11
months.

This RFD is part of a proposal to remove 31 low-traffic former-INET
groups.  Please see article <1152814343.19576@isc.org>, available here:

    http://news.killfile.org/?group=news.announce.newgroups&number=1363

Note: the proposal to remove two of the 31 groups, comp.os.rsts and
comp.std.announce, has been withdrawn.


HISTORY: 

comp.org.isoc.interest has existed as an INET group since at least January 1993.
It was promoted to the standard Big 8 distribution in October 2000.


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups
  comp.org.isoc.interest
  comp.protocols.misc
  comp.infosystems
  news.software.nntp


CHARTER:

The newsgroup line is:

comp.org.isoc.interest	Discussion about the Internet Society.


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2006-08-08     3rd RFD (Last call for Comments)
2006-07-13     2nd ("comprehensive") RFD
2006-07-06     1st RFD