Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news 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 Lines: 23 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? David Robinson elroy!david@csvax.caltech.edu ARPA david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov ARPA {cit-vax,ames}!elroy!david UUCP Disclaimer: No one listens to me anyway!