REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
remove sci.finance.abstracts
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated
newsgroup sci.finance.abstracts.
RATIONALE: remove sci.finance.abstracts
The last approval was in October 2000, and approvals were quite
infrequent over the three previous years (1998-2000). In the total
active lifetime of the group, about 80 articles were approved, with
half of those in the first six months after the group was created.
More general access to the WWW has made the group superfluous, and the
last moderator agreed there was no purpose in keeping the newsgroup
around.
HISTORY:
The newsgroup sci.finance.abstracts was created in June 1996. The
Google archive has 78 approved, non-FAQ articles, with half in the
last 6 months of 1996, and most of the rest in 1997. The final two
articles were approved in August and October 2006, after a gap of
almost two years.
CHARTER:
The newsgroup line is:
|sci.finance.abstracts Abstracts of unpublished finance working papers.
The charter (from the CFV):
This is a newsgroup for the posting of abstracts of up to 250 words
(and instructions for requesting or downloading the full working
paper) of unpublished original theoretical and empirical research on:
Cor****ate Finance
Financial Markets
Investments
Options, Futures and other Derivative Securities
Insurance
Banking and Financial Intermediation
Other topics in Finance
Related topics in Accounting, Economics and Applied Statistics
PROCEDURE:
The full group removal procedure is do***ented 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.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 reader****p 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.
DISTRIBUTION:
This do***ent has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups (moderated)
news.groups.proposals (moderated)
sci.finance.abstracts (moderated)
sci.econ
misc.invest.technical
The proponent will also post pointers to:
sci.econ.research (moderated)
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jimrtex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CHANGE HISTORY:
2007-07-17 1st RFD
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Jim Riley
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