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From: ruiu@dragos.uucp (dragos)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Old Group Deletion Procedures
Keywords: delete obsolete newsgroups
Message-ID: <1989Sep29.022624.12663@dragos.uucp>
Date: 29 Sep 89 02:26:24 GMT
References: <3137@ur-cc.UUCP> <1989Sep26.212755.8458@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: ruiu@dragos.UUCP (dragos)
Organization: Orbital Mind Control Lasers, Inc.
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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?


   This machine is a 16 bit machine (a 286) and one of my news-neighbors is a
   PDP-11. 

   Keeping a few extra inodes around is just as painfull here as on a 'bigger'
   machine. That is to say, not at all. So this is not a good reason.

   I think groups eventually atrophy and diappear over disk crashes, new
   software installation etc... I see no reason that we should go out of our
   to trash dead/quiet groups. If it is really dead, time and equipment
   failures will nuke it.
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