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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 15:09:02 EST
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On 08.01.2025 10:19 Uhr noel wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:04:29 -0500, Marco Moock wrote:
> 
> >  
> >> 
> >> an extra few hundred is hardly going to mater, especially when of
> >> the 53419 "Active" /cough/ groups here, I'd be betting 80% or
> >> greater are inactive, and have for many years.  
> > 
> > I advocate for deleting them. I sometimes go through group lists
> > and see groups with interesting topics, but all empty. Not a good
> > user experience, so a cleanup is always a good idea.  
> 
> I certainly hope you're not baseing these inactive groups like you
> did with the group Kev mentioned, you saw nothing, for 10 years you
> said, we have posts all throughout, sorry Marco, I hardly think you
> are in an appropriate position to call an RFD unless you use multiple
> news servers (not all fed by same upstreams) to verify the real
> status of the group, I know you're new to the big 8 team, so I hope
> you take that as constructive advice.

I've checked the alias file for nomod entries and decided to create the
RfD to either fix that or propose the deletion.

As I don't have my own news server, I can't check the spool.
The discussion exists to find such cases and handle them properly. The
next RfD won't include rec.arts.movies.reviews.
I also tried to find older versions of the alias file, but I didn't
find them and the list owner didn't reply to me when I asked.

If there is somebody who can provide statistics, I would appreciate
that.

-- 
kind regards
Marco

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