RFD: remove comp.org.cpsr.announce moderated

[Jim Riley]

REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
remove comp.org.cpsr.announce

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated
newsgroup comp.org.cpsr.announce.

RATIONALE: remove comp.org.cpsr.announce

The newsgroup comp.org.cpsr.announce has not had any approved messages
since January 1998. After its creation in 1994, the group had roughly
a half dozen approvals per month in its first 2 years, this declined
to 6 approvals for all of 1997, followed by a single approval in
January 1998.

Announcements and discussion about the CPSR (Computer Professionals
for Social Responsibility) and its activities may occur in the
unmoderated group comp.org.cpsr.talk. In addition, the CPSR maintains
a web site http://www.cpsr.org/.

HISTORY:

The newsgroups comp.org.cpsr.announce (moderated) and
comp.org.cpsr.talk (unmoderated) were created in April 1994. The
moderated group was active for roughly 4 years, and has been inactive
for the past 9 years.

PROCEDURE:

The full group removal procedure is documented here:

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup

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

DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.org.cpsr.announce
comp.org.cpsr.talk
comp.society

PROPONENT:

Jim Riley <jim...@pipeline.com>

CHANGE HISTORY:

2007-01-25 1st RFD

[li...@privaterra.info]

I've just seen this, and will forward to the CPSR board for their
comment.

As a board member myself, I can say that staff probably don't know
about this space - and as a result have not been posting messages of
interest here.

Regards

Robert Guerra <rguerra AT cpsr.org>
Director, CPSR