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:
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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.
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PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jimrtex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2006-09-21 2nd RFD (LCC)
2006-09-01 1st RFD
