RFD: remove comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest

[Jim Riley]

REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
remove comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the
newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest.

RATIONALE: remove comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest

There have been no approved messages since December 1995. The
newsgroup was a gateway for the info-ibmpc mailing list, and I can
find no evidence of the existence of the mailing list after December
1995.

Discussion of the IBM PC can occur in any number of groups in the
comp.sys.ibm.pc.* hierarchy, as well as various hierarchies devoted to
operating systems that run on the IBM PC (or clones), including
comp.os.msdos.*, comp.os.ms-windows.*, and comp.os.os2.*.

HISTORY:

The newsgroup mod.computers.ibm-pc was created in October 1985 as a
gateway for the ARPAnet mailing list INFO-IBMPC. The mailing list was
then in its 4th year. The group was renamed to comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest
as part of the Great Renaming in April 1987.

Despite various hiccups with gateways, archives, and editor moves, the
mailing list continued to be posted to the newsgroup until December
1995. I can find nothing that indicates what happened to the mailing
list or the newsgroup after this point.

PROCEDURE:

The full (draft) 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 and participate in the relevant threads in that
newsgroup.

To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to news.groups.

All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.

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 as well.

DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest
comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
comp.sys.ibm.pc.classic

PROPONENT:

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

CHANGE HISTORY:

2006-09-21 1st RFD