This is a pointer to a proposal to remove
comp.lang.basic.visual.announce
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:42:03 -0600, The Big-8 Management Board
<board@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
> remove comp.lang.basic.visual.announce
>
>This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated
>newsgroup comp.lang.basic.visual.announce.
>
>
>PROCEDURE:
>
>The B8MB plans to begin voting on this proposal after five days. Please
>offer any final discussion or comments before the end of this waiting
>period. Voting may take up to one week (7 days); a result will be posted
>following the end of the voting period.
>
>All discussion of this proposal should be posted to
news.groups.proposals.
>
>The full group removal procedure is documented here:
>
> http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup
>
>
>SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:
>
>The only comments was that the group "was as dead as a Dodo."
>
>
>RATIONALE: remove comp.lang.basic.visual.announce
>
>There have been no messages approved by the moderator of the newsgroup
>since May 1997.
>
>In 1998, during discussion of an RFD to add (.16bit, .32bit, and
>.internet) groups to the comp.lang.basic.visual.* hierarchy, there was
>a suggestion made that either the .announce group should be removed or
>a new moderator found. The RFD for the additional groups was
>abandoned and no action with respect to the .announce group.
>
>Most mentions of comp.lang.basic.visual.announce since 1997 have been
>either simply including it in a list of Visual Basic groups; or as
>part of a complaint about posting an announcement to
>comp.lang.visual.basic.misc (even though no announcements had been
>approved to the .announce group in several years).
>
>There are at least 63 newsgroups related to Visual Basic in the
>microsoft.* hierarchy. With this level of support by the vendor,
>there may simply be little need for a Big 8 announcement group.
>
>Over the past 12 months, there have been more announcements posted to
>the non-Visual-Basic comp.lang.basic.* groups (.misc, .powerbasic, and
>.realbasic) than to the comp.lang.basic.visual.* groups. If there is
>a revival of the group, consideration should be made of renaming the
>group as comp.lang.basic.announce.
>
>
>HISTORY:
>
>The newsgroup comp.lang.basic.visual was created in January 1994. The
>newsgroup comp.lang.basic.misc was created at the same time (there was
>never a comp.lang.basic newsgroup).
>
>In October 1994, comp.lang.basic.visual was split into 3 unmoderated
>newsgroups (.3rdparty, .database, and .misc) and the moderated
>newsgroup comp.lang.basic.visual.announce).
>
>There were approvals in comp.lang.visual.announce from October 1994
>until January 1997. There have been rare cross-posted articles
>approved by moderators of other groups since then.
>
>The non-Visual-Basic groups, comp.lang.basic.powerbasic and
>comp.lang.basic.realbasic were created in August 1998 and December
>1998, respectively.
>
>
>DISTRIBUTION:
>
>This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
>
> news.announce.newgroups
> news.groups.proposals
> comp.lang.basic.visual.announce
> comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
> comp.lang.basic.misc
>
>The proponent will also post pointers to:
>
> comp.lang.basic.powerbasic
> comp.lang.basic.realbasic
> comp.lang.basic.visual.3rdparty
> comp.lang.basic.visual.database
>
>
>CHARTER:
>
>The newsgroup line is:
>
>comp.lang.basic.visual.announce Official information on Visual Basic.
>
>Charter of news.announce.conferences (from CFV)
>
> Acceptable posts to this group would include FAQ posts, shareware
>announcements, other usenet administrative posts (like this
> entire discussion), etc...
>
>
>PROPONENT:
>
>Jim Riley <jimrtex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>CHANGE HISTORY:
>
>2006-12-03 2nd RFD/LCC
>2006-11-08 1st RFD
--
Jim Riley
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