Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!news From: news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Network News) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Old Group Deletion Procedures Summary: When is a newsgroup obsolete? Keywords: delete obsolete newsgroups Message-ID: <3137@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 08:32:17 GMT Reply-To: leadley@cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester Lines: 16 Maybe this is a good time to consider a formal newsgroup deletion procedure. I was poking through the news directories here and discovered what appear to be three inactive newsgroups: directory modification date --------- ----------------- /usr/spool/news/soc/politics/arms-d Mar 23 1989 /usr/spool/news/comp/os/cpm/amethyst Mar 10 1989 /usr/spool/news/comp/theory/info-retrieval Dec 6 1988 I would consider any group that has had zero activity for six months a likely candidate for the axe. Certainly any group that has been inactive for twelve months or more is dead. Can newsgroups die or are they immortal?