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Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc

From not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Newsgroups news.groups.proposals
Subject Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Date 2025-10-23 11:07 -0400
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Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
> On 22.10.2025 09:19 Uhr Jesse Rehmer wrote:
> 
>> For the health and relevancy of Usenet, I support removing unused
>> groups. I've been around long enough and still don't always know
>> where to post about a topic I haven't discussed on Usenet before. If
>> one looks for "unix" against my active file there are 269 groups,
>> "linux" has 455. How does a new/naive Usenet user determine the most
>> appropriate group(s)?
> 
> Thanks for pointing that out.
> If I want to discuss a topic, I choose a place where actual people read
> and post.

So you end up with behaviour like in comp.os.linux.misc at the
moment where people just talk about anything vaguely technology
related (or now not even that) because people will repond there.
But people like me start killfiling and marking all posts as read
so much it becomes hard to follow what little on-topic discussion
still takes place. There's the same trouble at
sci.electronics.design where I saw at least one post from another
reader who said they'd given up following the group regularly due
to the similar problem there.

On the other hand I'm happy to post to quiet groups, and at least
my post is not lost in the noise from people who don't even really
know anything about my topic (or don't want it discussed in their
presence). Sometimes (albeit not often) after a week/month/year
someone does actually come out of the woodwork and post an informed
reply that I mightn't have followed a noisy group long enough to
even see.

> According to the replies we got so far, no one cared about those groups
> I proposed to remove.

The first reply was from me and I ended with this statement which
covered these groups:

  Having these separate places to discuss old platforms is an asset
  of Usenet to allow it to cater for people with different
  interests without unnecessary conflict.

But apparantly that doesn't count as caring to you. I'm not going
to flail around further rewording an opinion you refuse to
acknowledge. You understand someone generally in favour of deleting
"unused" groups, but ignore someone who'se generally against it. I
guess this wasn't really a Request for Discussion but a Request for
One-Sided Discussion.

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RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Usenet Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> - 2025-10-10 10:22 -0400
  Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-10-10 19:22 -0400
    Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-11 14:40 -0400
      Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-10-12 11:30 -0400
    Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-10-12 11:29 -0400
      Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-12 11:37 -0400
        Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-10-13 15:59 -0400
          Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-10-14 01:31 -0400
          Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> - 2025-10-14 16:59 -0400
            Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-15 08:51 -0400
              Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-10-16 09:38 -0400
              Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-10-16 09:38 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Tristan Miller <tmiller@big-8.org> - 2025-10-16 12:43 -0400
              Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-10-20 13:23 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-20 15:17 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> - 2025-10-21 10:04 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-10-22 05:57 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-22 09:19 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-22 11:46 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-10-23 11:07 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-10-24 04:20 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-24 04:26 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-10-25 11:36 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-25 14:23 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-24 10:51 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-10-25 11:37 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-25 14:12 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-10-26 05:05 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-10-22 17:01 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-23 11:07 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> - 2025-10-25 11:37 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> - 2025-10-26 21:03 -0400
            Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-10-15 09:07 -0400
          Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Tristan Miller <tmiller@big-8.org> - 2025-10-16 12:14 -0400
            Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-16 14:07 -0400
            Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-10-20 13:22 -0400
              Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-20 15:23 -0400
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-10-22 05:57 -0400
              Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Tristan Miller <tmiller@big-8.org> - 2025-10-21 12:08 -0400
      Re: Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc ReK2 Hispagatos <rek2@usenet_reborn.tui> - 2025-10-15 14:26 -0400
        Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-16 09:38 -0400
          Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-16 14:12 -0400
            Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-16 23:43 -0400
        Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-16 14:11 -0400
    Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Tristan Miller <tmiller@big-8.org> - 2025-10-16 12:35 -0400

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