The Great Downsizing of comp.mail.*

[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.mail.list-admin.policy Policy issues in running mailing lists.
comp.mail.mush The Mail User's Shell (MUSH).
comp.mail.smail Administering & using the smail email transport system.
comp.mail.zmail The various Z-Mail products and their configurability.

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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[Jorgen Grahn]

On Fri, 2011-02-04, Big-8 Management Board wrote:
> 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

Neither of those links work. God knows why the he/she/they didn't just
refer to the news.announce.newgroups posting itself:

Message-ID: <great-downsizi...@news.albasani.net>

/Jorgen

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