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From: Ivo Gandolfo <usenet@bofh.team>
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Subject: Re: 1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 10:39:03 EST
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On 05/01/2025 15:04, noel wrote:
> If nobody is moderating the groups, why not unmoderate them instead of
> removing them, if they get use, fair enough, if not, there is no harm, no
> extra resources used other than a handful of bytes for a one line entry
> in active file which already has thousands of unmoderated groups that
> haven't been posted to in 10 years anway.
> 

I think because many servers would not respect the change of group, 
either because GPG keys are not updated or for other reasons (I've heard 
that this is the main reason since the 90s, as there has never been a 
unified coordination between newsmasters, and each newsmaster is free to 
do what he wants)


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Ivo Gandolfo