REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
remove comp.edu.composition
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the unmoderated
newsgroup comp.edu.composition.
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 were no comments made.
RATIONALE: remove comp.edu.composition
comp.edu.composition has had no on-topic messages in the past 11 months.
Discussion about the use of computers for writing instruction would be
better
placed in the misc.education.* hierarchy or in misc.writing.
This RFD is part of a proposal to remove 31 low-traffic former-INET
groups. Please see article <1152814343.19576@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, available here:
http://news.killfile.org/?group=news.announce.newgroups&number=1363
Note: the proposal to remove two of the 31 groups, comp.os.rsts and
comp.std.announce, has been withdrawn.
HISTORY:
comp.edu.composition has existed as an INET group since at least 1987. It
was promoted to the standard Big 8 distribution in October 2000.
DISTRIBUTION:
This do***ent has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
comp.edu.composition
misc.writing
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jimrtex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2006-08-08 3rd RFD (Last call for Comments)
2006-07-13 2nd ("comprehensive") RFD
2006-07-06 1st RFD
