RESULT: comp.sources.hp48 will be removed
Jim Riley
remove comp.sources.hp48
The Big-8 Management Board has decided by consensus to remove the
newsgroup comp.sources.hp48. Voting began on 01 Jul 2006, and ended on
02 Jul 2006.
This group will be removed on 07 Jul 2006.
SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:
There were no objections to the removal of comp.sources.hp48
RATIONALE: Remove comp.sources.hp48
The last approved message was in November 1993.
There are other more suitable means of distributing program sources,
so comp.sources.hp48 is not a suitable candidate for conversion to an
unmoderated newsgroup.
HISTORY:
The newsgroup comp.sources.hp48 was created in July 1991, with the first
approved message in July 1991.
CHARTER:
From the CFV:
This moderated newsgroup will contain all program postings and anything
that needs to be archived. All programs can and should be posted here.
It will not matter if they are rpl source, assembly source, uuencoded
binaries, asc encoded binaries, or any other format that might come up
in the foreseeable future. It would be good to post large documents
like the internals list here for archiving and to keep the bytes down
in the discussion group. This is not a requirement, only a suggestion.
Each posting will contain rkive(1) headers so that rkive(1) can be
used to automatically archive each posting. Hopefully the sites that
archive comp.sources.* will also archive the HP48 source. There will
be at least one archive site, seq.uncwil.edu.
Each posting will also contain a version number so that it will be much
easier to keep track of newer versions and to purge old versions.
Since most HP28 programs run on the HP48, they are welcome. The
postings will be identified by HP28 in the subject line of each
message.
DISTRIBUTION:
This RFD has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
comp.sources.hp48
comp.sys.hp48
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jim...@pipeline.com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2006-07-05 Results prepared.
2006-06-26 2nd RFD (Last Call for Comments)
2006-06-19 Slightly reformatted and posted to NAN
2006-06-16 Original RFD.