Nan:2006-08-14-hyperchannel-result

From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)
Subject: RESULT: comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel will be removed
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups,
 comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel, comp.dcom.lans.misc
Followup-To: news.groups
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:22:55 -0700

                                 RESULT
              comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 8 Aug 2006 initiated a five-day
period for final comments.  Following the comment period, the Big-8
Management board has decided by consensus to remove the newsgroup
comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel.

This group will be removed on 21 Aug 2006.


RATIONALE: remove comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel

comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel has had no on-topic messages in the past
11 months. Any articles related to Hyperchannel networks can be posted to
comp.dcom.lans.misc.

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comp.std.announce, has been withdrawn.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.dcom.lans.hyperchannel has existed as an INET group since at least 1987. 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.dcom.lans.hyperchannel
  comp.dcom.lans.misc


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2006-08-14     Results posted.
2006-08-07     3rd RFD (Last call for Comments)
2006-07-13     2nd ("comprehensive") RFD
2006-07-06     1st RFD