The Great Net Cleanup Part IIa
Gary W. Sanders N8EMR
gws at cbnap.UUCP
Wed Jul 31 22:53:08 AEST 1985
>I just recently deleted a number of newsgroups that had seen minimal or
>no use in the last few months. Since that time, I have gotten mail
>from a few people suggesting other candidates for removal based on
>their lack of activity. It seems to make sense that if we won't create
>a new newsgroup without an indication of potential use, there is no
>justification for keeping newsgroups which get no significant use after
>creation.
>
>Site "gatech" has a news history of about 3 years. That is, all our
>newsgroup numbering started when we came on the net about 3 years ago.
>Thus, I have a pretty good indication of overall activity on a
>newsgroup by checking our active file.
>
>The following newsgroups have had little use recently and less than 150
>articles in the last three years. For many of the groups, that
>includes their entire lifespan. Additionally, it appears that anywhere
>from 1/2 to 2/3 of the articles posted to many of these groups are
>cross-posted to other, currently active groups. There seems to be
>little need to keep these groups around.
>
>Unless someone provides me with a good reason not to, I will be
>removing the following groups on or about August 15:
> net.bugs.v7
> net.decus
> net.games.go
> net.lang.apl
> net.math.symbolic
> net.micro.432
> net.notes
> net.rec.birds
> net.rec.scuba
> net.rec.skydive
> net.std
> net.theater
> net.usoft
>
Gene; I agree about removal of all your listed groups, but
net.decus. I believe that it should stay. It seems to me
(in my short net life) that net.decus has a small, but steady
flow of traffic. net.decus seems to have about twice the traffic
that net.usenix, but I doubt that anyone will get rid of that
news group.
tnx
Gary W. Sanders (N8EMR)
ihnp4!cbnap!gws
AT&T Bell Labs (Columbus, Oh)
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