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From: Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: 1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 10:28:30 -0600
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Big-8 Management Board wrote:
>                REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
> 
> This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the following
> 101 moderated newsgroups.
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.

If I thought that the removal of 101 groups would make a difference in
anything that matters, I would be more supportive.  But this is a drop
in the bucket in terms of the number of inactive groups.  The effect of
this change would be to slightly reduce the chance of someone posting
into a newsgroup that they found by doing a name search and their action
being a waste of time because there is no moderator or no users of the
group.

The bottom line for me is that it's not worth investing the effort at
this point in the life of Usenet.  But it's not my time . . .