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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
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	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?