RESULT: news.software.anu-news will be removed
The Big-8 Management Board
news.software.anu-news will be removed
The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 23 Mar 2007 initiated a five-day period
for final comments. Following the comment period, the Big-8 Management Board
has decided by consensus to remove the newsgroup news.software.anu-news.
This group will be removed on 03 Apr 2007.
RATIONALE: remove news.software.anu-news
The newsgroup news.software.anu-news has not had any on-topic messages
since November 2005, at which point there was a two-article thread.
The FAQ was last updated 24-Aug-1998 and last posted to the group
16-July-2004.
Discussion of ANU news is appropriate in the comp.os.vms newsgroup and
the two on-topic messages mentioned above were crossposted to that
group, so it may be that the answer came from there rather than
news.software.anu-news. ANU News is mentioned in an October 2006 thread
in comp.os.vms that is not crossposted to news.software.anu-news.
HISTORY:
News.software.anu-news was created in July, 1989
<41...@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> to discuss a news server package from
Australian University. It was active until the late 1990s, at which
point year-2000 issues were discovered in the software. A year-2000
compliant version was made available in February 2000 but by then almost
all use of the software had ceased.
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
news.software.anu-news
comp.os.vms
PROPONENT:
Steve Bonine <s...@pobox.com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2007-03-09 1st RFD
2007-03-23 2nd RFD/LCC
2007-03-29 Results (passes)