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From: david@jane.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Old Group Deletion Procedures
Summary: Why bother?
Keywords: delete obsolete newsgroups
Message-ID: <1989Sep26.212755.8458@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 26 Sep 89 21:27:55 GMT
References: <3137@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@jane.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson)
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL
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In article <3137@ur-cc.UUCP> leadley@cc.rochester.edu writes:
>	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:
> [...]
>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?

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?



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