Nan:2010-02-06-rfd-misc.industry.insurance

From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>
Subject: 1st RFD: misc.industry.insurance moderated (remove)
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 18:01:21 EST
Message-ID: <hkkphj$r88$1@news.albasani.net>


              REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
              moderated group misc.industry.insurance

This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove moderated
newsgroup misc.industry.insurance.

RATIONALE:

Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.

  insurance@toast.org
    (generated from misc-industry-insurance@moderators.isc.org)
    retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

misc.industry.insurance	General forum for all insurance issues. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
misc.industry.insurance

CHARTER OF MISC.INDUSTRY.INSURANCE

The scope of the proposed group misc.industry.insurance should
cover basically all insurance related issues which could include,
but are not limited to the following:

 * underwriting
 * actuarial
 * claims
 * information technology in insurance
 * broking
 * reinsurance

It is hoped that the group would lean towards the discussion
of general day-to-day business and away from, for example,
protracted discussions on the finer details of a particular
actuarial equation.  Moderation would only cut in when the
subject no longer relates directly to insurance though.  As
well as being a forum to discuss specific issues, this group
will also act as an arena in which to simply make contact with
other insurance professionals.  The moderation for this group
will exist *solely* to filter out the totally off-topic posts,
and will not judge on insurance related content.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

misc.industry.insurance is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 147:24 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 3 Jan 1996.

PROPONENT:

Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

PROCEDURE:

Those who wish to comment on this request to remove this newsgroup should
subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in the relevant threads
in that newsgroup.

To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to
news.groups.proposals.

In the course of the removal process four formal announcements are posted
(MVI, 1st RFD, 2nd RFD, and LCC), each taking two weeks. At the end of the
process the B8MB will vote on the issue.

Available options for misc.industry.insurance are:
- leave the group as it is
- remove the group

For more information on the MVI process, please see 

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:mvi

CHANGE HISTORY:

2010-01-17	Probe post
2010-01-24	Moderator Vacancy Investigation
2010-02-06	1st RFD