RFD: remove talk.current-events moderated (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)

[Big 8 Management Board]

REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
remove talk.current-events

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated
newsgroup talk.current-events.

PROCEDURE:

The B8MB plans to begin voting on this proposal after five days. Please
offer any final discussion or comments before the end of this waiting
period. Voting may take up to one week (7 days); a result will be
posted
following the end of the voting period.

All discussion of this proposal should be posted to
news.groups.proposals.

The full group removal procedure is documented here:

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup

RATIONALE: remove talk.current-events

While the group was successful for a year or two, there has been little
to
no traffic in the last year, and there is no indication that this will
change in the future.

The current moderators have agreed that it is not worth salvaging. We
propose to remove the group.

HISTORY:

talk.current-events was created in September 2006.

DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups (moderated)
news.groups.proposals (moderated)
talk.current-events (moderated)

PROPONENT:

Tim Skirvin <tski...@killfile.org>

[WSBRK1]

hell no.

and, top posting because I can.

Big 8 Management Board wrote:
: REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)

[Rhett]

Whatever.

[WSBRK1]

Rhett wrote:

a true statement.

[anonymous]

What is your rationale for this observation?

[WSBRK1]

anonymous wrote:

it is realy part of the procedure. "whatever" is just that. it is part of
current events, man. sometimes there ain't nothing to talk about, unless
there is another Berlin Wall? I mean, WTF! if you are trying to create
news by saying there is no news, then WTF!

[Rhett]

No news is good news.