Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!novia!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Big-8 Management Board Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.compilers.lcc,comp.compilers.tools.javacc,comp.compilers.tools.pccts Subject: The Great Downsizing of comp.compilers.* Followup-To: news.groups.proposals Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: albasani.net Lines: 22 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <11-02-009@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: gal.iecc.com 1297195306 13647 64.57.183.58 (8 Feb 2011 20:01:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:01:46 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: administrivia Posted-Date: 08 Feb 2011 15:01:46 EST X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:980 comp.compilers.lcc:468 comp.compilers.tools.javacc:15 There is a proposal currently in news.announce.newgroups to remove 198 unmoderated newsgroups all across the BIG8. Because of the magnitude of the group list the proposal is not crossposted to target groups. Instead pointers are posted to a few selected groups. The full text of the proposal is available here: http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Nan:2011-02-01-rfd-great-downsizing http://groups.google.com/group/news.announce.newgroups/msg/091abc69fd45436b Affected groups that might interest you: comp.compilers.tools.pccts Construction of compilers and tools with PCCTS. If you have any objections, please make them heard in moderated group news.groups.proposals. The "Followup-To:" header is set on this message, so simply replying to this post should do the right thing. -- [Note that this only refers to the PCCTS group, which hasn't gotten any real traffic in years, -John]