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From: dtynan@altos86.UUCP (Dermot Tynan)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines
Message-ID: <885@altos86.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 06:20:12 GMT
References: <1634@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: dtynan@altos86.UUCP (Dermot Tynan)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <1634@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
>
>	RULES FOR DELETING A USENET GROUP
>
>I propose that the procedure be the same as for group creation, with
>100 more keep than delete votes required to save the group, with the exception
>that all calls for votes and discussions MUST be cross-posted to both
>news.groups and the group in question. This will obviously only work for

This is incorrect.  The 'burden of proof' so to speak, is on the people who
want the group *removed*.  In reality, the only valid groups to come up for
'rmgroup'ing, will be those which are not special-purpose (such as
n.a.important) or those which have very low activity (in which case, it is
easy to obtain a 100-vote delete margin).  If it's possible to 'rmgroup'
without the 100-vote margin, then people will rely on apathy to rmgroup
certain groups which are indeed active and legit.  On the other hand, a margin
in favor of deleting shows strong interest in seeing the group go, and
the disk-space (?) freed.  As for moderated groups, the same rules should
apply.    If the DECWRL neilsons show that the group is being read, and the
moderator has no problem getting contributions, then why remove it?
In fact, can we now stop the chatter about r.h.f, and assume that those
who feel betrayed by the 'commercialism' will refrain from posting to the
group, and those that do contribute will realise their material (which is
rarely original to begin with!) may pass on to other sources, perhaps for
monetary gain.    Either that, or we create a news.gibberish!
						- Der
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