Xref: utzoo news.admin:5579 news.groups:8879 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!surf.ee.lbl.gov!jef From: jef@surf.ee.lbl.gov (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: Results of dead groups survey. Message-ID: <2383@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Date: 11 Apr 89 19:22:43 GMT References: <1432@Portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: usenet@helios.ee.lbl.gov Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 28 In the referenced message, karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) wrote: }Two weeks is a ridiculously short baseline for a survey, }anyway. There was a digest posted to the laser printers group }not long before this period. Actually, I chose the groups to tweak on the basis of my previous survey, reported in article <2094@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, posted on the 13th of March. In that survey I reported the list of groups that had no articles in my spool directory. We keep those newsgroups for 21 days, so now we are back to the 20th of February. Almost two MONTHS, not two weeks. If there was an article posted to comp.laser-printers during this time, then the distribution must be broken because it didn't get here. In any case, comp.laser-printers was not in my "remove" category, but in my "definite problems, attempt contact and remove if nothing happens" category. It is not acceptable for a moderator to go for months without posting anything and to ignore email asking what is up. One or the other is ok -- not particularly nice, but ok. Both together means the group should be removed. So, would you, Chuck Karish, like to attempt contact with the moderator of comp.laser-printers? I have done my part. I have attepted contact, and I have been ignored. Now it's someone else's turn. --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@helios.ee.lbl.gov ...well!pokey "If all else fails, try sucking it out."