2nd RFD: remove comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce moderated (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)
The Big-8 Management Board
remove comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated
newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce.
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.proposals.
The full group removal procedure is documented here:
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup
SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:
One comment was received from John Levine stating that the group (and
BSD/OS) were dead.
RATIONALE: remove comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce
The last approval was in June 2000. BSD/OS was sold by BSDi to Wind
River Systems in April 2001. Sales were discontinued at the end of
2003, with support discontinue in 2004.
Over the past 12 months, only 20 articles were posted to the
associated discussion group comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc, and all but one
were cross-posted to other comp.unix.bsd.* groups. The one
non-cross-posted article specified that the poster used FreeBSD Unix.
The last moderator agreed that there was no reason to keep the group
around, and that it had been several years since he had received a
non-spam submission.
HISTORY:
The newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce was created in February 1995
as part of a comp.unix.bsd.* reorganization that also created
comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc.
The last approval was in June 2000. Over the roughly 5 years of
activity about 100 articles were approved.
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups (moderated)
news.groups.proposals (moderated)
comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce (moderated)
comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
comp.unix.bsd.misc
CHARTER:
The newsgroup line is:
comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce Announcements pertaining to BSD/OS.
The charter (from the CFV):
This newsgroup is for announcements relating to the BSD/OS operating
system. Things appropriate for the .announce group would include
announcements of new versions of BSD/OS, announcements of major
software releases (both commercial and freely redistributable) for
BSD/OS (e.g. new version of X11 for BSD/OS), announcements of fixes
for major bugs, and the like. FAQs relating to BSD/OS should also be
cross-posted to this group.
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jim...@pipeline.com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2007-06-15 1st RFD
2007-08-16 2nd RFD/LCC submitted
2007-09-17 2nd RFD/LCC