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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: 1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:02:51 EDT
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In article <20250312171737.22412fe1@ryz.dorfdsl.de>,
Marco Moock  <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
>On 13.02.2025 16:13 Uhr vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
>
>> but I still use MAthematica, so maybe it can be unmoderated
>
>Defunct for more that 10 years. Do you know that people still want to
>use it?
>
>If so, we might change that to unmoderated.

It strikes me that many of these groups probably became
moderated during the very awkward period while USENET was still
very popular and spam was uncontrolled.

The situation is different now, however, so I suspect that for
some of them (perhaps many) switching to unmoderated would be
fine.

	- Dan C.