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2nd RFD: Remove comp.compression.research (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)

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This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the
moderated newsgroup comp.compression.research.

The Big-8 Management Board plans to begin voting on this proposal
after five days.  Please offer any final discussion or comments before
the end of this waiting period.  Voting may take up to one week (seven
days); a result will be posted following the end of the voting period.


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.


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.


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:

2025-03-28: 1st RFD (remove)
2025-04-25: 2nd RFD (remove)
2025-05-09: Final RFD / Last Call for Comments

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