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From: win@gatech.edu (Win Strickland Jr)
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Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines
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Date: 24 Mar 89 14:02:56 GMT
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In article <1634@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
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>      RULES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION AND DELETION (draft)
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>REQUIREMENTS FOR GROUP CREATION:

I like the way Greg has stated these requirements.  Minor variations
to his proposal would be ok, but in general, I think they capture what
we are doing now.


>	RULES FOR DELETING A USENET GROUP
>
>[Since there has obviously been no consensus ever reached on this, this
> statement cannot be construed as anything other than my personal opinion]
>   

Here, I agree with some comments made by others, and I think we should
have some sort of traffic measure which causes this process to initiate
rather than some person deciding it would be fun to see if a vote would
fail.  I think Dave Mack proposed some sort of volume requirements over
a three month period.  Again, we might want to discuss the specific numbers
in terms of month and volume (5, 10, ? articles), but in general I think
this might be the way to go.

I've always wanted to see some sort of guidelines for deleting groups, 
and I hope we can reach a consensus on this.

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