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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
Newsgroups: news.admin.hierarchies
Subject: Re: hun.* rmgroups
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 20:36:19 -0000 (UTC)
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Julien <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:

>Hi Adam,

>>I saw myriad rmgroups in hun.* but no checkgroups. Just curious what
>>newsgroups are sticking around or if the entire hierarchy is out of
>>business.

>I also saw them yesterday and wrote to Gabor Kiss, the sender of the 
>rmgroup control articles.
>He confirmed there had not been any normal traffic in hun.* since 
>several years.  And after 30 years of service, he got tired and decided 
>to remove it.

>One newsgroup was sticking around, and got removed a few hours ago.

>The hierarchy and its PGP key can be removed from control.ctl and PGPKEYS.

>RIP.

I know that Russ prepended a note to HIERARCHY-NOTES that he's not
maintaining it, probably two decades ago. Nevertheless, it has a list of
defunct hierarchies in it.

Would you add this information to the list with today's date?

This should be documented.