Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!gatech!emory!dtscp1!scott From: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Old Group Deletion Procedures Keywords: delete obsolete newsgroups Message-ID: <988@dtscp1.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 23:12:14 GMT References: <3137@ur-cc.UUCP> <1989Sep26.212755.8458@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> Reply-To: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, Georgia Lines: 17 In article <1989Sep26.212755.8458@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> david@jane.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) writes: |Why bother deleting inactive groups? They are only taking up one inode |on your disk and one line in your active file. Low and no volume |groups are really not a problem. The only good reason I have heard |is that some small 16 bit machines have limits that become painful |when there are too many groups, but how many 16 bit machines are running |netnews anymore? How about us System V Release 3 people with that bug that doesn't free inodes under certain circumstances. I just ran into this one as recently as yesterday (along with a bad block in the inode table). However, I think inactive groups are the least of Usenet's problems! -- scott barman 1989 Mets: Wait 'till Next Year! {gatech, emory}!dtscp1!scott