Nan:2010-01-17-RESULT-sci-psychology-consciousness

From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RESULT: sci.psychology.consciousness will be removed
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:59:35 EST
Message-ID: <hiv6uk$g2u$1@news.albasani.net>


                                 RESULT
              sci.psychology.consciousness will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 2010-01-10 initiated a five-day
period for final comments.  Following this comment period, the Big-8
Management Board has decided by vote to remove moderated group
sci.psychology.consciousness.

Vote results (yes-no-abstain): 10-0-0

RATIONALE:

Russ Allbery has been running an autoresponder on the submission address
for sci.psychology.consciousness, telling people to use the corresponding
PSYCHE-D mailing list instead (which was gated to the newsgroup).

According to http://www.lsoft.com/SCRIPTS/WL.EXE?XH=LISTSERV.UH.EDU
this mailing does not exist anymore. Looking at groups.google.com reveals
that the newsgroup was unsubscribed from the mailing list in 2006 and
there has been zero traffic in the moderated newsgroup since then, except
for one bit of forge-approved spam.

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

sci.psychology.consciousness	On the nature of consciousness. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
sci.psychology.consciousness

CHARTER OF SCI.PSYCHOLOGY.CONSCIOUSNESS

 This newsgroup is for academic discussion of the nature of
 consciousness and its relation to the brain.  While centered in the
 area of psychology, relevant perspectives may be afforded from
 related disciplines including but not limited to philosophy,
 cognitive science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and
 anthropology.  The newsgroup will be gatewayed with the mailing list,
 PSYCHE-D.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

sci.psychology.consciousness is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote
for creation by 124:23 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 6 Jun 1995.

PROPONENT:

Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

CHANGE HISTORY:

2010-01-01	Moderator resigns
2010-01-02	Moderator Vacancy Announcement
2010-01-10	LCC
2010-01-17	RESULT