RESULT: comp.soft-sys.nextstep will be removed
The Big-8 Management Board
comp.soft-sys.nextstep will be removed
The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 30 Aug 2006 initiated a five-day
period for final comments. Following the comment period, the Big-8
Management board has decided by consensus to remove the newsgroup
comp.soft-sys.nextstep.
This group will be removed on 12 Sep 2006.
RATIONALE: remove comp.soft-sys.nextstep
comp.soft-sys.nextstep has had 1 on-topic messages in the past 11
months (though possibly more related to comp.sys.sun.misc).
This RFD is part of a proposal to remove 31 low-traffic former-INET
groups. Please see article <11528143...@isc.org>, available here:
http://news.killfile.org/?group=news.announce.newgroups&number=1363
Note: the proposal to remove two of the 31 groups, comp.os.rsts and
comp.std.announce, has been withdrawn.
HISTORY:
comp.soft-sys.nextstep has created as an INET group in June 1992. It
was promoted to the standard Big 8 distribution in October 2000.
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
comp.soft-sys.nextstep
comp.sys.next.misc
comp.sys.sun.misc
comp.sys.mac.misc
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jim...@pipeline.com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2006-08-17 Results
2006-08-30 3rd RFD (Last call for Comments)
2006-07-13 2nd ("comprehensive") RFD
2006-07-06 1st RFD