Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.albasani.net!four.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Big-8 Management Board Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.pascal.borland Subject: The Great Downsizing of comp.lang.pascal.* Followup-To: news.groups.proposals Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:52:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: albasani.net Lines: 21 Message-ID: X-Trace: four.albasani.net FRSwphUKP7cSvzn2FYylOAhjSUGMv14JeTOgr6GZNwbU8SlxQbimdw+8st2VyMtsyRXSUL1CC/hRYQn1IEd4ug== NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:52:20 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: four.albasani.net; logging-data="57p0e/26kFJkK1+6fOgBxyHjKzn9Sv8FC4k3rMXv7QE0LXFfxZo6O7BhlTo65EvO8X6qSc6X/llp4Jgf8gIAYGJBhTJb2inTikP/E6DquWgtJPcR5BTTXjHaaYIaCaAa"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" Cancel-Lock: sha1:96FpCDCvlFPrZgQ+wgKepmZ6Un4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc:537 comp.lang.pascal.misc:477 comp.lang.pascal.borland:157 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.lang.pascal.delphi.advocacy Contentious issues related to Delphi. comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.usage Using pre-written components. comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.writing Writing Delphi components. 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. --