RESULT: rec.aviation.announce will be removed

RESULT
rec.aviation.announce will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 09 Mar 2007 initiated a five-day
period for final comments. Following the comment period, the Big-8
Management board has decided by consensus to remove the newsgroup
rec.aviation.announce.

This group will be removed on 21 Mar 2007.


RATIONALE: remove rec.aviation.announce

The last approved article was in January 1999. In the prior two years
traffic had greatly declined, with two periods of 6-months with no
approvals. With such a light volume, any announcements of fly-ins,
etc. can be made directly in unmoderated rec.aviation.* groups.

An an announcement group it would be inappropriate to convert the
group to an unmoderated status.


HISTORY:

The newsgroup rec.aviation.announce was created in September 1992, as
part of a re-organization of rec.aviation into 13 newsgroups
(rec.aviation.announce (ra.announce); ra.answers; ra.homebuilt;
ra.ifr; ra.military; ra.misc; ra.owning; ra.piloting; ra.products;
ra.simulators; ra.soaring; ra.stories; and ra.student).

Approvals per year we 1992, 1 article; 1993, 30 articles; 1994, 91
articles; 1995, 13 articles (8 month interruption); 1996, 52 articles;
1997, 16 articles; 1998, 22 articles; and 1999, 2 articles.

The last approval was in June 1999.


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
rec.aviation.announce
rec.aviation.misc
rec.aviation.piloting

The proponent will also post pointers to:

rec.aviation.aerobatics
rec.aviation.homebuilt
rec.aviation.military
rec.aviation.owning
rec.aviation.student


PROPONENT:

Jim Riley


CHANGE HISTORY:

2007-02-26 1st RFD
2007-03-09 2nd RFD/LCC
2007-03-17 Results (passes)