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From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: About nuking newsgroups:
Message-ID: <2791@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-May-84 06:20:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 06:20:16 1984
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How do you then distinguish between a group that's no
longer in the active file because it has really been
removed for good and one that is just tired?  You would
see the .newstr file get endlessly large with groups
that will never come back.

What about those small machines?  Why should thy be
forced off the network because they can't run a readnews
big enough to handle all the groups?  Doesn't seem fair
that piddly little groups that should never have come
into existence be able to toss a machine off the net,
does it?