It's been a while since I've seen a new group solicitation. But I
don't recall EVER seeing an old group removal solicitation.
Sounds like a no-brainer: no traffic speaks for itself.
Good for Jim!

Brian Whatcott Altus OK

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:29:29 -0700, Jim Riley
wrote:

REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
remove rec.aviation.questions

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the
newsgroup rec.aviation.questions.


RATIONALE: remove rec.aviation.questions

The last approved message was in June 1994. The group was created in
April 1994, and had less than 30 articles posted in its 3-month period
of activity.

The removal of rec.aviation.questions would have no effect on the other
moderated groups in the rec.aviation.* hierarchy including
rec.aviation.announce, rec.aviation.answers, or rec.aviation.stories. If
you are interested in reviving any of these groups, please contact the Big
8 Management Board.


HISTORY:

The newsgroup rec.aviation.questions was created in April 1994, and had
11 articles in April, 12 articles in May, and 5 articles in June.


PROCEDU

The full (draft) group removal procedure is documented he

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.p...licies:rmgroup

Those who wish to comment on this request to remove this newsgroup should
subscribe to news.groups and participate in the relevant threads in that
newsgroup.

To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to news.groups.

All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.

If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the discussion
may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be taken to ensure that
all discussion appears in news.groups as well.



DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
rec.aviation.questions
rec.aviation.announce
rec.aviation.misc
rec.aviation.ifr
rec.aviation.piloting
rec.aviation.student


PROPONENT:

Jim Riley


CHANGE HISTORY:

2006-08-30 1st RFD