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From: bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: About nuking newsgroups and other flames
Message-ID: <350@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 14:06:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 14:06:13 1984
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>> 
>> Would you believe that I have a solution? (Wow! original concept!). How
>> about this: We create a new piece of software. Its purpose is to keep an
>> eye on the groups. If a group is not used for a specific period of time
>> (say 4 months or 6 months) this piece of software sends out an rmgroup and
>> notifies the network in net.news.group with an automatic message. This
>> makes topic reaping completely fair. There is no more worry about vendettas
>> (Ah HA! I'm gonna get net.wobegon if it is the last thing I EVER DO!) and
>> there is no sympathy voting either (I know we don't USE net.wobegon, but we
>> like knowing it exists. Please don't hurt us!). The only thing that matters
>> is usage. Use it or lose it. We can, of course, make arrangements for
>> worthy(?) seasonal topics like net.rec.ski if we really want to. To make
>> absolutely sure this software has a good idea of what the network is using
>> it should be on some major site (like decvax or ihnp4).

I'm in full sympathy with your goals to nuking woebegon.  However, what's to
prevent someone writing a piece of software that posts to their favourite
group once every n months, where n is less than the zapping interval.

Regards,
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				Binayak Banerjee
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