This is a pointer to a proposal that would remove
misc.news.east-europe.rferl.
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:17:34 -0700, board@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(The Big-8
Management Board) wrote:
> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
> remove misc.news.east-europe.rferl
>
>This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the
>newsgroup misc.news.east-europe.rferl.
>
>
>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.
>
>The full (draft) group removal procedure is do***ented here:
>
> http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup
>
>
>
>SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:
>
>There was some discussion about reconnecting the newsgroup to the
>RFE/RL mailing list. However, there were no comments from the
>newsgroups which presumably would have the most interest in the
>content of the RFE/RL news digest.
>
>
>RATIONALE: remove misc.news.east-europe.rferl
>
>The last approved message was in December 1994.
>
>The Newsline is still available via the WWW or by e-mail at
>http://www.rferl.org/newsline/
so the newsgroup is an unused redundancy.
>
>
>HISTORY:
>
>The newsgroup misc.news.east-europe.rferl was created in November 1992 to
>distribute the RFE/RL Daily Re****t which was also distributed via a
listserv at
>that time, and also being reposted into a number of other newsgroups.
>
>
>DISTRIBUTION:
>
>This do***ent has been posted to the following newsgroups:
>
> news.announce.newgroups
> news.groups
> misc.news.east-europe.rferl
> talk.politics.european-union
> talk.politics.soviet
>
>The proponent will also post pointers to:
>
> soc.culture.europe
> soc.culture.polish
> soc.culture.czecho-slovak
> soc.culture.magyar
> soc.culture.romanian
> soc.culture.bulgaria
> soc.culture.yugoslavia
> soc.culture.slovenia
> soc.culture.croatia
> soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
> soc.culture.albanian
> soc.culture.estonia
> soc.culture.baltics
> soc.culture.russian
> soc.culture.belarus
> soc.culture.ukrainian
> soc.culture.rep-of-georgia
>
>
>CHARTER:
>
>The newsgroup line is:
>
>misc.news.east-europe.rferl Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Daily Re****t.
>
>The CFV gave the following description of the mailing list:
>
>========================================================================
>Today the re****t is available as a LISTSERV list which has around
>1.500 subscribers. Below is the presentation for the mailing list:
>
>* The RFE/RL Daily Re****t is a digest of the latest developments
>* in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. It is published
>* Monday through Friday (except German holidays) by the RFE/RL
>* Research Institute (a division of Radio Free Europe/Radio
>* Liberty Inc.) in Munich. It averages roughly 30 Kbytes of
>* material per day.
>========================================================================
>
>
>PROPONENT:
>
>
>Jim Riley <jimrtex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>CHANGE HISTORY:
>
>2006-09-21 2nd RFD (LCC)
>2006-09-01 1st RFD
--
Jim Riley
