Nan:2007-10-03-obvious-bulk-result
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RESULT: bulk creation of "obvious" groups passes
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups.proposals
Followup-To: news.groups.proposals
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:41:39 -0500
Organization: http://www.big-8.org/
RESULT
bulk creation of "obvious" groups
The Big-8 Management Board has decided by vote to implement the bulk-creation
experiment. The vote was 6 in favor, 1 opposed, and two abstentions/no-votes.
Additionally, the Board has voted to adopt the proposed template, with a
vote of 4 in favor, 2 opposed, and three abstentions/no-votes.
Finally, the following groups were selected as the "most obvious" from
the original list, again by vote (from 6 members of the Board):
comp.bittorrent
comp.internet.services.blog.livejournal
comp.internet.services.google
comp.internet.services.social.myspace
comp.internet.services.video.youtube
comp.internet.services.wiki
comp.phone.mobile
comp.phone.mobile.iphone
rec.arts.tv.comedy.the-office
rec.arts.tv.news.oreilly-factor
rec.games.online.mmorpg.world-of-warcraft
rec.games.video.microsoft.xbox360
rec.games.video.nintendo.wii
rec.games.video.sony.playstation3
rec.media.players.portable
rec.media.players.portable.ipod
These groups will be created at a rate of 4 per week for the following
four Mondays. The names are still up for discussion in
news.groups.proposals.
NEWSGROUPS:
comp.bittorrent Distributed file sharing over the Bittorrent protocol
comp.internet.services.blog.livejournal LJ blogging service and software
comp.internet.services.google Search, Gmail, Groups, Maps, Picasa, etc
comp.internet.services.social.myspace Teenage social networking
comp.internet.services.video.youtube Internet video for the masses
comp.internet.services.wiki Wikis, such as Wikipedia
comp.phone.mobile.iphone Apple's iPhone
comp.phone.mobile Cellular telephones
rec.arts.tv.comedy.the-office The Office, both US and UK Version
rec.arts.tv.news.oreilly-factor Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor
rec.games.online.mmorpg.world-of-warcraft World of Warcraft
rec.games.video.microsoft.xbox360 Microsoft XBox360 console
rec.games.video.nintendo.wii Nintendo Wii gaming console
rec.games.video.sony.playstation3 Sony PS3 comsole
rec.media.players.portable.ipod Apple's iPod media players
rec.media.players.portable Portable media players
CHARTER:
(The following is a template charter, which will be set for all groups.)
This newsgroup was created as part of a trial "bulk creation" newsgroup
creation process, in which "obvious" newsgroups are created without specific
proponents or charters. Users of this group are urged to formulate a more
specific charter and/or newsgroup description for this group, and to propose
them in news.groups.proposals.
If this group is not used within the next 18 months, it will be removed.
For more information, please refer to the FAQs posted in
news.announce.newgroups.
Advertising, spam, and excessive crossposting are prohibited. Messages must
be plain text only (no HTML, pictures or other binaries) with the exception
of X-Face headers or PGP-type signatures. Posts should be on-topic for the
name of the group, subject to future interpretation by the overall group
culture.
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups (moderated)
news.groups.proposals (moderated)
PROPONENT:
Tim Skirvin <skirv@big-8.org>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2007-09-14 1st RFD
2007-09-24 2nd RFD/LCC
2007-09-28 3rd RFD/LCC
2007-10-03 Results
