RESULT: comp.compression.research will be removed

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Result:

comp.compression.research will be removed.

The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 2025-05-09 initiated a five-day
period for final comments.  Following this comment period, the Big-8
Management Board has decided by a vote to remove the group
comp.compression.research.  The vote was 3 in favour of deletion and 1
not voting.


Newsgroups Line:

comp.compression.research       Discussions about data compression research.


Distribution:
	news.announce.newgroups
	news.groups.proposals
	comp.compression
	comp.compression.research


Proponent: Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de>


Charter:

comp.compression.research is for discussion about data compression
research.


Rationale for removal:

The group currently doesn't have a working moderation system, so
nobody can post. The last posts were made in 2012. Even some years
prior the on-topic traffic was very low, so reviving it is rather
unrealistic.

The current moderator, Niels Fröhling, communicated to the Big-8
Management Board in December 2024 that he doesn't think he can
moderate the group nowadays and that "closing the group is probably
the best thing to do".

The unmoderated group comp.compression exists and can be
used to discuss the research of compression.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.compression.research


Discussion so far:

No comments were received in response to the first and second RFDs,
nor to the LCC.


History of the group:

ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/comp/comp.compression.research.gz

comp.compression.research was an unmoderated newsgroup which passed
its vote for creation by 312:10 as reported in news.announce.newgroups
on 19 Jun 1992.  It was changed to moderated in 1993.  It has been
unused since 2012.


History of this RFD:

2025-03-28: 1st RFD (remove)
2025-04-25: 2nd RFD (remove)
2025-05-09: Final RFD / Last Call for Comments
2025-05-22: Result: comp.compression.research to be deleted

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