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From: jef@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Old Group Deletion Procedures
Message-ID: <3871@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 26 Sep 89 22:01:04 GMT
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In the referenced message, leadley@cc.rochester.edu wrote:
}/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

Here's what I find at my site.  Zero activity for four to six months:

alt.gourmand			May 16 1989	moderated
ddn.newsletter			May 13 1989	moderated	inet
alt.sources.amiga		Apr 28 1989	moderated
comp.lang.idl			Apr 14 1989			inet
soc.politics.arms-d		Apr  3 1989	moderated

Zero activity for over six months:

comp.theory.info-retrieval	Dec 20 1988	moderated
comp.society			Oct 29 1988	moderated

Does anyone besides me detect a pattern here?   ^^^^^^^^^

}	Can newsgroups die or are they immortal?

See .sig quote below, which I swear was chosen randomly.
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Jef

    Jef Poskanzer  pokey@well.sf.ca.us  {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!pokey
        "Immortality consists largely of boredom." -- Zefrem Cochrane