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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
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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?

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!

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scott barman                          1989 Mets: Wait 'till Next Year!
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