From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!mclure Newsgroups: net.news.group Title: rmgroup and Usenet dictators - (nf) Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5305 Posted: Wed Mar 9 07:03:18 1983 Received: Sat Mar 12 01:04:27 1983 #N:sri-unix:7800003:000:392 sri-unix!mclure Dec 9 03:43:00 1982 ***** sri-unix:net.news / mclure / 3:38 am Dec 9, 1982 The solution is for the notesfile and readnews maintainers (or some random hackers) to add "automatic deletion" of unused newsgroups to their software and see that it gets distributed. Then we would have no need to argue about potential Usenet dictators. A three-month timeout on newsgroup life seems reasonable. Stuart ----------