Xref: utzoo news.groups:8476 news.admin:5282 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: Dead Groups Summary: sys file processing gets expensive Message-ID: <13996@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 27 Mar 89 04:12:24 GMT References: <3548@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX Lines: 26 In article <3548@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes: >Individuals or sites who don't want to subscribe to or >carry "dead" groups don't have to, do they? In that case, >why not just (mangled metaphor alert) let sleeping groups lie >on the off-chance someone will post to one or more of them >eventually? As sys files grow, inews takes increasingly larger amounts of time to determine which articles go where, etc. The alternative is to locally rmgroup the questionable newsgroup. This can be a bother as now junk contains articles for these questionable groups, plus articles for groups which are leaking into your machine. Anyway, getting rid of newsgroups is not a bad idea. Some people have become romantically involved with seeing their name in the list of moderators or repeatedly justifying a newsgroup with no traffic and no real purpose. alt.rhode_island hasn't seen traffic since 2/12/89. I am not even going to suggest removing it ... -- John F. Haugh II +-Quote of the Week:------------------- VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 | "Do not drink and bake" InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US | -- Arnold Swartzenegger UucpNet : !killer!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------