RESULT - proposal to remove rec.games.bolo defeated (3-3-0-1)

[Big-8 Management Board]

The formal board vote taken on this proposal was 3 in favor,
3 opposed, no abstentions, with one board member not voting.

Prior to the vote, it was agreed that a tie vote would mean
that the proposal was defeated.

Relevant material from the RFD:

Newsgroups Line:

rec.games.bolo The networked strategy war game Bolo.

Distribution:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
rec.games.bolo
news.groups

Proponent: Big-8 Management Board <bo...@big-8.org>

Charter:

To allow the discussion of topics and posting of software
related to the game "Bolo," by Stuart Cheshire, originally
for the Macintosh.

Rationale for removal:

The newsgroup seems to be defunct. The last ontopic thread
was in February, 2007 and the last ontopic post was
<220320081806208221%erfc...@usa.net> from 22 March 2008.

The board is interested in closing unmoderated groups that
have, in the past, been used for distribution of binaries.
The charter seems to envisage "posting of software." The
actual binaries may have been small maps of the game.

The game is not dead. The latest version was released on 13
February 2009: <http://www.winbolo.com/>. Another
active version is available at <http://www.nubolo.net>.

History of the Group:

rec.games.bolo is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed
its vote for creation by 447:26 as reported in
news.announce.newgroups on 30 Nov 1993.

<http://www.faqs.org/faqs/games/bolo-faq/part1/>

Discussion:

* Feedback:

** Mildly opposed to removal

Robert Uhl
Message-ID: <m3ocsbn...@latakia.octopodial-chrome.com>
Message-ID: <m31vp2f...@latakia.octopodial-chrome.com>

** Opposed to removal

Mark Kramer
Message-ID: <h23fbc$36v$1...@vulture.killfile.org>

Bob Noel
Message-ID: <nospam-61C3E3....@nntp.aioe.org>

C.R. Osterwald
Message-ID: <290620091640382825%erfc...@usa.net>

Igenlode Wordsmith
Message-ID: <e8257b1c-0229-4ff7...@18g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>

Minhiriath
Message-ID: <f0100ef0-38b3-4eec...@l34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>

Nemokrad
Message-ID: <0b317837-cc88-4807...@j12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>

** Change the charter instead of removing the group
Helge Nareid
Message-ID: <2obi451a78dg3qdua...@4ax.com>

** Favor removal

Dave Sill
Message-ID: <7arp10F...@mid.individual.net>

Marty Moleski
Message-ID: <SPedndD5Oox8R9XX...@supernews.com>

** Not worth the hassle

Steve Bonine
Message-ID: <7b2locF...@mid.individual.net>

History of this RFD:

2009-07-14 RESULT: proposal defeated
2009-06-25 Removal RFD / Last Call for Comments