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From: Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: 3rd RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 17:50:56 -0500
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[news.groups.proposals removed from the newsgroups list because my 
previous post was refused because "you can't crosspost between 
news.groups and news.groups.proposals"]

noel wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:58:41 -0400, Paul W. Schleck wrote:
> 
>> Personally, I think this robo-moderation idea has the risk of being a
>> lot of effort for little reward.
> 
> I agree with this statement.

You know what's even less effort?  Do nothing.

It's not like removing 100ish dead groups from the list is going to 
affect anyone.  There are vanishingly few people wandering around Usenet 
looking for places to post.  The folks who are here are using the groups 
they know and it is excruciatingly rare that they find themselves 
wanting to post outside of those groups.

New users . . . Wait.  There are none.

I've been watching the latest victory of the Big8 committee - 
comp.sys.wearables.  So far the sum total of posts is the "Moderator 
Found" post and a welcome-back post with one followup.  This is typical 
of efforts to revive groups that have been dead for decades, and 
completely predictable.

WHY expend effort doing things like removing groups or trying to revive 
dead ones?  It is wasted effort. But if you've got nothing better to do 
with your time . . .