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From: Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de>
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Subject: Re: 1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 21:00:42 +0100
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On 08.01.2025 10:28 Uhr Steve Bonine wrote:

> Big-8 Management Board wrote:
> >  =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=
=A0=C2=A0 REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
> >=20
> > This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the
> > following 101 moderated newsgroups. =20
> When these groups are removed, the history associated with the
> contents of the group will disappear.  I do not know how much this
> matters. There are cases where someone doing research could use the
> information, but it is rare.  But when it's gone, it's gone.

Those groups were mostly unused more than 10 years, most servers won't
carry any articles anymore. The group's history itself can still be
found at the ISC ftp server, all control messages, including
descriptions, can be found there.


--=20
kind regards
Marco

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