🚀 go-pugleaf

For the past 16 months I have been the moderator of can.gov.announce.
During that time there have been 55 postings to that newsgroup, seven of
those were postings by me of the posting guidelines.  There have
probably been as many or more postings that were rejected for not
meeting those guidelines.  Clearly being the moderator of the group is
not an onerous task however I don't feel that the volume warrants the
continued existence of the newsgroup nor of its sister discussion group
can.gov.general.

The can.gov.announce and can.gov.general newsgroups were intended to
facilitate the exchange of information between government departments
and government employees and the public.  can.gov.announce was created
in part to move this traffic out of can.general.  However, this traffic
has largely dried up as the government has discovered the web.

The discussions in can.gov.general tend to be crossposts from
can.politics, can.general, and every other regional *.general group
around.  They don't need this additional home.

Therefore I respectfully suggest that these two newsgroups be removed.
-- 
David J. Blackwood
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