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The Big-8 Management Board

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Mar 31, 2008, 1:00:30 PM3/31/08
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reorganization of rec.arts.anime.*

The Big-8 Management Board has decided by consensus to reorganize the
rec.arts.anime.* hierarchy as described. Discussion began on 12 Mar 2008,
and completed a week later.

The three groups will be removed on 12 Apr 2008.

NEWSGROUPS:

rec.arts.anime.games Group will be removed.
rec.arts.anime.models Group will be removed.
rec.arts.anime.music Group will be removed.

RATIONALE:

First the numbers -- the first number is the total posts for the year 2007,
and the second number is the total posts for the month of December 2007.

rec.arts.anime.creative 133 4
rec.arts.anime.fandom 524 18
rec.arts.anime.games 4 0
rec.arts.anime.info 33 3
rec.arts.anime.marketplace 266 17
rec.arts.anime.models 55 2
rec.arts.anime.music 64 5
[There were 10s of 1000s of posts in rec.arts.anime.misc last year.]

As can be seen by the above numbers, four newsgroups had less than 100 posts
in all of last year [2007]. rec.arts.anime.info is a moderated newsgroup
that had an unhealthy moderator that recently passed away, hence the low
traffic. Furthermore, there is some desire to retain the newsgroup, with the
addition of a new moderator(s) at a later date.

Of the remaining three, what little discussion there was previously in
rec.arts.anime.games and rec.arts.anime.music, has migrated to
rec.arts.anime.misc. rec.arts.anime.models is mostly eBay ads with the rare
on-topic post garnering one to zero replies. Given the near absence of
on-topic traffic, I propose the removal of these three newsgroups.


HISTORY:

All three were newgrouped as part of the second rec.arts.anime.*
sub-hierarchical reorganization on March 18, 1996.


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups (moderated)
news.groups.proposals (moderated)
rec.arts.anime.games
rec.arts.anime.models
rec.arts.anime.music


PROPONENT:

Rob Maxwell <robu...@excite.com>

CHANGE HISTORY:

2008-01-15 1st RFD
2008-03-12 2nd RFD/LCC
2008-03-31 Results (passes)

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