From: Big-8 Management Board on
RESULT
comp.lang.tcl.announce will be removed

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 2010-02-21 initiated a five-day
period for final comments. Following this comment period, the Big-8
Management Board has decided by vote to remove moderated group
comp.lang.tcl.announce.

Vote results (yes-no-abstain): 10-0-0

RATIONALE:

Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.

<comp-lang-tcl-announce(a)moderators.isc.org>: host
moderators.individual.net[130.133.4.7] said: 451 host lookup did
not complete (in reply to RCPT TO command)

<comp-lang-tcl-announce(a)moderators.isc.org>: host
moderators.switch.ch[130.59.10.10] said: 451 Temporary local problem -
please try later (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Michael Schumacher, Larry W. Virden, Alexandre Ferrieux, and Pat Thoyts
favor removal.
Message-ID: <1571194.pJY0Dk2SVa(a)misc.albasani.net>
Message-ID: <56c2548b-6f25-477b-ad47-02a98ec0bb61(a)b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>
Message-ID: <8688fc43-18ad-4073-b484-c99eedae2b11(a)k17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>
Message-ID: <87r5prdq7o.fsf(a)users.sourceforge.net>

NEWSGROUPS LINE:

comp.lang.tcl.announce Announcements about Tcl. (Moderated)

DISTRIBUTION:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
comp.lang.tcl.announce
comp.lang.tcl

CHARTER OF COMP.LANG.TCL.ANNOUNCE

Comp.lang.tcl.announce is a moderated newsgroup for announcing new
developments about Tcl and related software and extensions such as the
Tk toolkit, including new software releases, periodic postings related
to Tcl, and other items of general interest to the Tcl community.

HISTORY OF THE GROUP:

comp.lang.tcl.announce is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 321:23 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 4 Jan 1996.

PROPONENT:

Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich(a)gmx.at>

CHANGE HISTORY:

2009-10-29 First probe post
2010-01-10 Moderator Vacancy Investigation
2010-01-24 1st RFD
2010-02-06 2nd RFD
2010-02-21 LCC
2010-03-02 RESULT

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