RESULT: sci.finance.abstracts will be removed
The Big-8 Management Board
sci.finance.abstracts will be removed
The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 02 Aug 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
sci.finance.abstracts.
This group will be removed on 20 Aug 2007.
RATIONALE: remove sci.finance.abstracts
The last approval was in October 2000, and approvals were quite
infrequent over the three previous years (1998-2000). In the total
active lifetime of the group, about 80 articles were approved, with
half of those in the first six months after the group was created.
More general access to the WWW has made the group superfluous, and the
last moderator agreed there was no purpose in keeping the newsgroup
around.
HISTORY:
The newsgroup sci.finance.abstracts was created in June 1996. The
Google archive has 78 approved, non-FAQ articles, with half in the
last 6 months of 1996, and most of the rest in 1997. The final two
articles were approved in August and October 2006, after a gap of
almost two years.
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups (moderated)
news.groups.proposals (moderated)
sci.finance.abstracts (moderated)
sci.econ
misc.invest.technical
The proponent will also post pointers to:
sci.econ.research (moderated)
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jim...@pipeline.com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2007-07-17 1st RFD
2007-08-02 2nd RFD/LCC
2007-08-15 Results (passes)