If you had said in your initial post something like, "TER might have removed it because it was inactive,"  or something similar where it was obvious you were making a guess, I might not have said anything. However you posted with conviction like you have first hand knowledge of TER executive decisions.
 Your post,  "When they go dead for long periods of time they are removed..." comes off as a fact from someone in the know. It simply is not true as I pointed out. Many of us have been around a long time, and have seen lots of very dead discussion boards stay up forever.  Perhaps TER did pull the I.E. board because it was inactive but we don't know that for sure, and it begs the question of why that board, and what about all the other dead boards?  Or perhaps somebody at TER pushed the wrong button and hit delete by accident (like the idiot responsible for Hawaii's false missile alert in January). The fact is we can guess but we don't know why the I.E. board was pulled, and you shouldn't make definitive statements like you are in the know, when you aren't.

Thanks for all the geographic info but I didn't need that. I am familiar with California, and I know what areas those boards covered. In fact if you want a bit of history, I am probably responsible for those three boards being created. I posted on the S&P board on 6/29/2014 asking TER to create those specific 3 boards  to help give the displaced RB folks places to post and to feel welcome at TER. The three boards were created on 7/2/2014. I followed those boards a lot in the beginning and unfortunately they were all dead and never gained any real life. I felt bad bad because I always post on the S&P board against the creation of new dead regional boards, and here I was asking for, and getting 3 new boards, which were dead from the get go. As I said, I followed them a lot in the beginning and it always seems like the Gold Coast was the "deadest" of the 3. I haven't followed them recently so I can't say that the I.E. board was even more inactive than the GC, or not, but I still have the question, if they killed the I.E. board because of light activity, what about all the other dead boards?