Nan:2006-12-19-mac-games-announce-result

From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RESULT: comp.sys.mac.games.announce will be removed
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games.announce, news.announce.newgroups,
 news.groups.proposals, comp.sys.mac.games.misc
Followup-To: news.groups.proposals
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:30:51 -0600
Organization: http://www.big-8.org/

                                 RESULT
              comp.sys.mac.games.announce will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 11 Dec 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.sys.mac.games.announce.

This group will be removed on 15 Jan 2007.


RATIONALE: remove comp.sys.mac.games.announce

comp.sys.mac.games.announce was always a low volume group, but then all
approvals ceased for two years. I contacted Christina Schulman,
proponent for the comp.sys.mac.games.* reorganization and moderator at
that time, and she agreed to turn moderation over to me.  Since I took
over moderation in December 2001 there have been fewer than 10
acceptable submissions in the best month, and many months there are no
submissions. Christina Schulman agrees that since the group is not being
used it should be removed cleanly and noted that most Mac game
announcements are probably being made via RSS feeds rather than through
newsgroups.  Users would be better served to post their announcements to
whichever of the following is most appropriate to the announcement:

  comp.sys.mac.games.action
  comp.sys.mac.games.adventure
  comp.sys.mac.games.flight-sim
  comp.sys.mac.games.marketplace
  comp.sys.mac.games.misc
  comp.sys.mac.games.strategic


HISTORY: 

The comp.sys.mac.games.* groups were created after passing their vote,
with the RESULT posted on 2 May 1995.  csmg.announce was fairly active
for the first 5 years, with an average of approximately 10 posts per
month.  From approximately Jan 2000 until December 2001, no posts were
approved and the group never again picked up steam when active
moderation resumed.  Over the past couple of years, almost all of the
mail to the submission address has been email spam unrelated to Mac
games.


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups.proposals
  comp.sys.mac.games.announce
  comp.sys.mac.games.misc

The proponent will also post pointers to:

  comp.sys.mac.games.action
  comp.sys.mac.games.adventure
  comp.sys.mac.games.flight-sim
  comp.sys.mac.games.marketplace
  comp.sys.mac.games.strategic


PROPONENT: 

Kathy Morgan <kmorgan@aptalaska.net> - Current Moderator, csmg.announce


CHANGE HISTORY: 

2006-12-19     Results (passed)
2006-12-13     2nd RFD/LCC
2006-11-20     1st RFD