REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the following
Usenet newsgroup:
remove comp.lang.lisp.franz
RATIONALE: remove comp.lang.lisp.franz
This is one of a set of 31 low-traffic former INET groups proposed for
removal. Please see the article
"2nd RFD: Remove low traffic former INET groups"
posted to news.announce.newgroups and news.groups for a more general
discussion.
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RATIONALE: remove comp.lang.lisp.franz
The newsgroup line is:
|comp.lang.lisp.franz The Franz Lisp programming language.
comp.lang.lisp.franz has had 5 apparently on-topic messages in the past
11 months. Only one received a response. Any Franz-specific discussion
can be conducted in comp.lang.lisp.
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PROCEDURE:
The full (draft) group removal procedure is documented here:
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup
Those who wish to comment on this request to remove this newsgroup
should subscribe to news.groups and participate in the relevant threads
in that newsgroup.
To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to
news.groups.
All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.
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 as well.
DISTRIBUTION:
news.announce.newgroups (omitted)
news.groups
comp.lang.lisp.franz
comp.lang.lisp
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <·······@pipeline.com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2006-07-08 Original RFD.
--
Jim Riley
[comp.lang.lisp added to x-post]
On 18 Jul 2006 17:34:35 +0200, rydis (Martin Rydstr|m) @CD.Chalmers.SE
wrote:
>Jim Riley <·······@pipeline.com> writes:
>> **********************************************************************************
>>
>> RATIONALE: remove comp.lang.lisp.franz
>>
>> The newsgroup line is:
>>
>> |comp.lang.lisp.franz The Franz Lisp programming language.
>>
>> comp.lang.lisp.franz has had 5 apparently on-topic messages in the past
>> 11 months. Only one received a response. Any Franz-specific discussion
>> can be conducted in comp.lang.lisp.
>>
>> **********************************************************************************
>
>It's unlikely that any of them were on-topic; they were referring to
>the Common Lisp implementation from Franz called Allegro CL, whereas
>the group is about Franz Lisp, a pre-CL implementation. (Also from
>Franz.)
>
>comp.lang.lisp is overwhelmingly about Common Lisp, nowadays.
They all appear to be referring to Allegro. Some people apparently see
the name of the newsgroup, and post in comp.lang.lisp.franz. There is
much more discussion about Allegro in comp.lang.lisp; so at best
comp.lang.lisp.franz serves at best to distract a few messages from
comp.lang.lisp.
--
Jim Riley