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From: salkind@cmcl2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: About nuking newsgroups:
Message-ID: <11600001@cmcl2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-May-84 23:11:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 23:11:00 1984
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Nf-From: cmcl2!salkind    May 23 23:11:00 1984

The main argument against more dynamic newsgroup creation/deletion
seems to be that the current B news software can't handle it.  I will
accept this argument as a short term explanation of why such a feature
does not exist.  But not as a reason for rejecting such a proposal
out of hand.

I agree that newsgroups should be deleted (expired) automatically by the
software.  Currently newsgroups, once created, hang around forever in B
news.  This is wasteful, annoying, and probably can be changed
(for instance, notes already has an automatic expiration facility).

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How newsgroup creation should be handled is less obvious.  The real
problem here seems to be that the news organization method (using
only newsgroups to classify articles) is not powerful enough.  The
notes system addresses this problem some what (by grouping responses
within newsgroups), but there is still a long way to go here.