REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
remove comp.networks.noctools.* hierarchy

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the unmoderated
newsgroup comp.networks.noctools.* hierarchy.

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.

The full (draft) group removal procedure is documented here:

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:

No comments were made. There were several spam messages made to the
unmoderated groups. Apparently 'network' means "find marks for Ponzi
scheme".

RATIONALE: remove comp.networks.noctools-remove

This sub-hierarchy is associated with a catalog of noctools sponsored by the
IETF, and at one time maintained at Washington University in St. Louis: