Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!myrias!dragos!ruiu 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. Lines: 24 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. -- Dragos Ruiu | Programming Languages: alberta!dragos!ruiu | uunet!myrias!dr | find / -name \*\[fF\]77\* -exec rm -rf {} \; bbs: (403) 439-0229 |