• RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc

    From Usenet Big-8 Management Board@board@big-8.org to news.announce.newgroups,news.groups.proposals,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc on Fri Oct 10 10:22:36 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.announce.newgroups

    This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the following unmoderated newsgroups.

    comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
    comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc


    DISTRIBUTION:
    news.announce.newgroups
    news.groups.proposals
    comp.unix.misc
    comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
    comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc


    PROPONENT: Marco Moock <mmoock@big-8.org>


    RATIONALE:

    There are various groups in comp.unix.* that are not used regularly.

    I propose to delete groups that are not used well and to direct the
    people to more general groups like comp.unix.misc in case they want to
    discuss the topics they special groups covered.
    If people declare interest in using them, I suggest to not delete them.


    GROUPS:

    comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
    386BSD operating system.

    History:
    comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc is a unmoderated newsgroup which passed its
    vote for creation by 285:87 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on
    22 Feb 1995. This groups supersedes the unmoderated groups in the comp.os.386bsd hierarchy, which will all be removed on 26 May 1995.

    Charter:
    Discussion about 386bsd which does not fall into the area
    of coverage of any of the other 386bsd groups. Things
    posted here should not be crossposted to the other 386bsd
    groups.

    Rationale:
    Last on-topic message from 2010.
    This operating system isn't developed anymore.
    If there is need for discussion, more general groups can be used.


    comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
    BSD/OS operating system.

    History:
    comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc is a unmoderated newsgroup which passed its
    vote for creation by 305:69 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on
    22 Feb 1995.

    Charter:
    Discussion about BSD/OS which does not fall into the area
    of coverage of any of the other bsdi groups. Things posted
    here should not be crossposted to the other bsdi groups.

    Rationale:
    Last on-topic discussion in 2015
    This operating system isn't developed anymore.
    If there is need for discussion, more general groups can be used.


    PROCEDURE:

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

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

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

    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.proposals as
    well.

    For more information on the newsgroup removal process, please see https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Removing_newsgroups


    HISTORY OF THIS RFD:

    2025-10-10: 1st RFD (remove)
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