The Great Downsizing of comp.sys.*
Big-8 Management Board
unmoderated newsgroups all across the BIG8. Because of the magnitude
of the group list the proposal is not crossposted to target groups.
Instead pointers are posted to a few selected groups.
The full text of the proposal is available here:
http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Nan:2011-02-01-rfd-great-downsizing
http://groups.google.com/group/news.announce.newgroups/msg/091abc69fd45436b
Affected groups that might interest you:
comp.sys.alliant Info and discussion about Alliant computers.
comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Methods of getting bytes in and out.
comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Animations, video, & multimedia.
comp.sys.amiga.networking Amiga networking software/hardware.
comp.sys.amiga.uucp Amiga UUCP packages.
comp.sys.apple2.gno The AppleIIgs GNO multitasking environment.
comp.sys.be.advocacy Why BeOS is better/worse than XYZ.
comp.sys.be.programmer Topics related to BeOS programming.
comp.sys.convex Convex computer systems hardware and software.
comp.sys.harris Harris computer systems, especially real-time systems.
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.marketplace PC clone games wanted and for sale.
comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.advocacy Advocacy for a particular soundcard.
comp.sys.intergraph Intergraph hardware and software products.
comp.sys.isis The ISIS distributed system from Cornell.
comp.sys.mac.games.adventure Adventure games for the Macintosh.
comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Version 3 of the MacApp object oriented system.
comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant Metrowerks' PowerPlant (CodeWarrior) Framework.
comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl Symantec's THINK Class Library for object programming.
comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior Macintosh programming using CodeWarrior.
comp.sys.mac.programmer.games Macintosh game programming.
comp.sys.net-computer.advocacy Relative merits of Network Computers.
comp.sys.next.advocacy The NeXT religion.
comp.sys.next.bugs Discussion and solutions for known NeXT bugs.
comp.sys.nsc.32k National Semiconductor 32000 series chips.
comp.sys.proteon Proteon gateway products.
comp.sys.psion.comm Discussions about Psion communications.
comp.sys.psion.marketplace Buy and sell Psion computers and accessories.
comp.sys.ridge Ridge 32 computers and ROS.
comp.sys.sequent Sequent systems, (Balance and Symmetry).
comp.sys.sgi.audio Audio on SGI systems.
comp.sys.sgi.graphics Graphics packages and issues on SGI machines.
comp.sys.tahoe CCI 6/32, Harris HCX/7, & Sperry 7000 computers.
If you have any objections, please make them heard in moderated group
news.groups.proposals. The "Followup-To:" header is set on this message,
so simply replying to this post should do the right thing.
--