Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd70!packet!cfv From: cfv@packet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: new and unused groups Message-ID: <279@packet.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Jun-83 14:47:15 EDT Article-I.D.: packet.279 Posted: Tue Jun 28 14:47:15 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 00:15:21 EDT Lines: 21 *sigh* When I sent out my original note I was not attempting to have ALL of those wonderful topics that my machine says isn't being used should go away. What I was trying to suggest was that some of the topics probably deserved being re-evaluated to see whether there was still a need for them. I realize that net.sport.hockey is seasonal, but what about net.wobegon? Just because a topic has been created doesn't mean it has to stay forever, and one good way to keep the number of topics from going through the roof is to occasionally look around and see what isn't being used. If it isn't being used but is still justifiable, then fine, lets keep it, but if it isn't being used because it is no longer relevant then there are a lot of potential topics that would be happy to replace it. It seems to me that somehow the topic creation and destruction mechanisms need to be rigorized. They are nicely automated, but there is no administration to dictate how that is going to be used. I don't have the answer (suprise!) but I think it is something that needs to be discussed. -- >From the dungeons of the Warlock: Chuck Von Rospach ucbvax!amd70!packet!cfv (chuqui@mit-mc) <- obsolete!