3rd RFD: remove comp.soft-sys.nextstep (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)
The Big-8 Management Board
remove comp.soft-sys.nextstep
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the
newsgroup comp.soft-sys.nextstep.
PROCEDURE:
The B8MB plans to begin voting on this proposal after five days. Please
offer any final discussion or comments before the end of this waiting
period. Voting may take up to one week (7 days); a result will be posted
following the end of the voting period.
All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.
The full (draft) group removal procedure is documented here:
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup
SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:
No comments were received. During the discussion period there was a
post to the group announcing an ebay auction of an Openstep 4.2 suite.
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comp.std.announce, has been withdrawn.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
CHARTER:
The newsgroup line is:
comp.soft-sys.nextstep The NeXTstep computing environment.
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jim...@pipeline.com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2006-08-30 3rd RFD (Last call for Comments)
2006-07-13 2nd ("comprehensive") RFD
2006-07-06 1st RFD