The Great Downsizing of comp.os.ms-windows.*

[Big-8 Management Board]

There is a proposal currently in news.announce.newgroups to remove 198
unmoderated newsgroups all across the BIG8. Because of the magnitude
of the group list the proposal is not crossposted to target groups.
Instead pointers are posted to a few selected groups.

The full text of the proposal is available here:

http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Nan:2011-02-01-rfd-great-downsizing
http://groups.google.com/group/news.announce.newgroups/msg/091abc69fd45436b

Affected groups that might interest you:

comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm MS-Windows communication applications.
comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95 Running DOS&Win3 apps in Win95.
comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win3x Utility/add-on programs for Win3.x.
comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.mail Winsock email applications.
comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.news Winsock news applications.
comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras Windows RAS networking.
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy Windows NT advocacy arguments.
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release Unreleased and beta Windows NT versions.
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware Windows NT hardware setup.
comp.os.ms-windows.pre-release Pre-release/beta versions of Windows.
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia Multimedia programming.
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.owl OWL-based development for Windows.
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp WinHelp/Multimedia Viewer development.
comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win3x Setup, hardware, and driver issues in Win3.x.
comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95 Setup, hardware, and driver issues in Win95.
comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup Setup and Configuration of Windows 95.

If you have any objections, please make them heard in moderated group
news.groups.proposals. The "Followup-To:" header is set on this message,
so simply replying to this post should do the right thing.

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