Nan:2010-04-25-result-soc.religion.sikhism

From: Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>
Subject: RESULT: soc.religion.sikhism will be removed
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:15:05 EDT
Message-ID: <hr240h$nel$1@news.albasani.net>

                             RESULT
              soc.religion.sikhism will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 2010-04-19 initiated a five-day
period for final comments.  Following this comment period, the Big-8
Management Board has decided by consensus to remove moderated group
soc.religion.sikhism.

RATIONALE:

A probe post to this group resulted in a bounce.

  sikh-sub@acpub.duke.edu
    (generated from soc-religion-sikhism@moderators.isc.org)
    SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<sikh-sub@acpub.duke.edu>:
    host mx.oit.duke.edu [152.3.189.28]: 550 <sikh-sub@acpub.duke.edu>:
    Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

soc.religion.sikhism	Sikh Religion and Sikhs all over the world. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
soc.religion.sikhism
soc.misc

CHARTER OF SOC.RELIGION.SIKHISM

soc.religion.sikhism is intended to be a moderated newsgroup to carry
informative articles and discussions about Sikh Religion [Sikhism] and
Sikh people [the Sikhs]. The topics intended to be covered by the newsgroup
will be relevant to Sikhism and Sikhs and include, but are not limited to:

o Teachings, Philosophy and  Practice of Sikhism.
o History of Sikhism and the Sikhs.
o Sri Guru Grahth Sahib Ji.
o Gurbani, and Literature related to Sikhism and Sikhs.
o News and current issues relating to Sikhism and Sikhs.
o Information about resources, pilgrimage, conferences  and other
  related endeavors.
o Specific queries of possible wide interest.

    The moderators will ensure that the postings are relevant to Sikhism
and free from verbal abuse, name calling and flames.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

soc.religion.sikhism is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 501:44 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 1 May 1995.

PROPONENT:

Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

CHANGE HISTORY:

2010-02-27	Probe post
2010-03-07	Moderator Vacancy Investigation
2010-03-21	1st RFD
2010-04-04	2nd RFD
2010-04-19	LCC
2010-04-25	RESULT