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Re: How does your server handle rmgroup control messages?

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Hi Tristan,

> The Big-8 Management Board has posted an RFD to remove 99 disused 
> moderated groups [1].  One of the points raised in the discussion is 
> whether removing these groups might irretrievably destroy their 
> contents, which could hinder people doing (historical) research.  The 
> Board is therefore seeking information from server administrators 
> concerning their article retention and archiving policies for deleted 
> groups.

This is always the same debate as soon as we speak about removing 
newsgroups from a canonic list of newsgroups (checkgroups).

There had been a mass removal in 2011 (and also earlier) in the 
Big-Eight.  Does it appear to currently be a problem?

If a news server is intended to be a Usenet archival server, then 
naturally it does not honour any removal of newsgroups and does not 
expire any article.  So they won't be affected by the removals.

Otherwise, well, it can have whatever policy as it does not aim at being 
used for historical research.

My two cents,

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

« Il ne faut jamais pleurer d'avoir perdu la lune car les larmes
   empêchent de voir les étoiles. »

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How does your server handle rmgroup control messages? Tristan Miller <tmiller@big-8.org> - 2025-03-28 22:08 -0500
  Re: How does your server handle rmgroup control messages? Ivo Gandolfo <usenet@bofh.team> - 2025-03-29 10:12 +0100
  Re: How does your server handle rmgroup control messages? Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> - 2025-03-30 13:59 +0200
  Re: How does your server handle rmgroup control messages? Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> - 2025-03-30 15:14 +0200

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