REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
remove sci.finance.abstracts
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated
newsgroup sci.finance.abstracts.
PROCEDURE:
The B8MB 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 (7 days); a result
will be posted following the end of the voting period.
All discussion of this proposal should be posted to
news.groups.proposals.
The full group removal procedure is do***ented here:
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup
SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:
No comments were received.
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.
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)
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|sci.finance.abstracts Abstracts of unpublished finance working papers.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paper) of unpublished original theoretical and empirical research on: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
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jimrtex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CHANGE HISTORY:
2007-07-17 1st RFD
2007-08-02 2nd RFD/LCc
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Jim Riley
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