Aeiss.149
net.news
utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!npois!eiss!jtb
Tue Jan 26 11:35:14 1982
Re: number of newsgroups
If there were some way to "de-activate" a newsgroup when activity died
down - e.g. net.mc net.ski and zillions of other defunct groups -
this would not be a problem.  All I'm suggesting is that the "active"
list be truly dynamic, not just monotone increasing.

I guess that it would involve cleaning up the sub-directories, removing
the '.' files and perhaps having readnews automatically clean up each
person's .newsrc file as news is read - by not rewriting those newsgroups
that no longer appear in the active file.

Also some more formal way of creating newsgroups seems to be in the wind.
How about only allowing submission of news to existing groups,
instead of simply asking whether to crate the new group.
Then an automatic newsgroup similar to the site one (I forget its name)
could be used to add to the .ngfile when a group is "blessed".

	John Burgess