RESULT: soc.religion.gnosis will be removed

[The Big-8 Management Board]

RESULT
soc.religion.gnosis will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 28 Jun 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
soc.religion.gnosis.

This group will be removed on 11 Jul 2007.

RATIONALE: remove soc.religion.gnosis

The last approval was in December 2000. Approvals in 2000 were often
sporaradic.

Possible actions include:

(1) Revive the group with a new moderator.

(2) Convert the group to an unmoderated status.

(3) Remove the group.

There is an equivalent unmoderated newsgroup (alt.religion.gnostic),
so an unmoderated soc.religion.gnosis may be redundant.

HISTORY:

The newsgroup soc.religion.gnosis was created in July 1994. An
earlier creation effort in November 1993 had narrowly missed the
required +100 plurality (151:56). It approvals until December 2000.
Traffic was often relatively light, with around 5 articles per week.

DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
soc.religion.gnosis
alt.religion.gnostic
talk.religion.misc

The proponent will also post pointers to:

soc.religion.christian.bible-study (moderated)
soc.religion.shamanism (moderated)

PROPONENT:

Jim Riley <jim...@pipeline.com>

CHANGE HISTORY:

2007-06-09 1st RFD
2007-06-28 2nd RFD (Last Call for Comments)
2007-07-06 Results (passes)