RFD: Remove comp.internet.library

[Brian Edmonds]

This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated
newsgroup comp.internet.library.

Newsgroups Line:
comp.internet.library Discussing electronic libraries. (Moderated)

Distribution:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.internet.library

Proponent: Brian Edmonds <mor...@gmail.com>

Charter:

More than 100 electronic libraries for books and journals or conference
papers are accessible and available through Internet. In this
new newsgroup telnet addresses and login procedures are provided or
discussed. Free exchange of information and ideas is essential in this
rapidly growing information age. This groups is chartered to promote
exchange of information and ideas on all aspects of electronic libraries.

Rationale for removal:

The group has not carried any real traffic in a decade. In that time
there have been occasional conference announcements, but even those
stopped nearly three years ago.

History of the Group:

January 1992: Group created.
Early 1998: Original moderator lost interest and group went idle.
June 2002: Brian Edmonds took over moderation.
October 2005: Last discussion post, per Google Groups.
January 2013: Last conference announcement, per Google Groups.

Procedure:

Those who wish to comment on this request to remove this newsgroup
should subscribe to news: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.

All discussion of active proposals should be posted to
news.groups.proposals.

If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the discussion
may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be taken to ensure
that all discussion appears in news.groups.proposals as well.

For more information on the newsgroup removal process, please see
http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Removing_newsgroups

History of this RFD:

2015-11-15: Drafted and posted.