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Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.*

From Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid>
Newsgroups news.groups.proposals
Subject Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.*
Date 2026-06-04 16:43 -0400
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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Hi Marco,

>> FWIW, the de.* hierarchy is currently rationalizing their newsgroups 
>> and proceeds to public votes.  A majority of voters is in favour of 
>> the removal of empty, no longer used newsgroups.  Quoting the results:
> 
> Indeed - and this has been done many times.
> 
> Please continue with your RfD.

Thanks for the proposal and your support!
Nonetheless, I do not plan on continuing.  I just wanted to discuss a 
possibility of rationalization, with an example of what could be done 
for news.* and talk.*.  The discussion was pretty interesting anyway! 
But I had not the intention to go further and analyze everything in 
details to provide all the information I usually read in previous RfDs. 
It's great to do that in RfDs, I agree and congratulate the work, but 
unfortunately I do not have enough spare time to spend on that (I have 
already enough other activities on Usenet stuff).

Besides, there are a lot of newsgroups in the Big-8, especially in 
comp.* and rec.*, so a per-group discussion would take ages and 
tremendous efforts, with the same arguments and counter-arguments always 
popping...
Even with RfDs containing a list of 20 newsgroups for instance, I bet 
discussions will still challenge each group in the list, which is fine, 
but I am not personally interested in reading and responding, so I'll 
pass my turn.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

« Sum, ergo bibo ; bibo, ergo sum. »

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RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> - 2026-01-07 20:59 -0500
  Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> - 2026-02-06 12:02 -0500
  Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2026-03-02 16:38 -0500
  Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Moses <moses.mason@gmail.com> - 2026-03-17 10:03 -0400
    Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-03-17 15:38 -0400
      Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Moses <moses.mason@gmail.com> - 2026-03-18 07:28 -0400
        Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-03-18 15:46 -0400
          Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Moses <moses.mason@gmail.com> - 2026-03-19 05:43 -0400
        Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> - 2026-03-19 05:20 -0400
          Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Moses <moses.mason@gmail.com> - 2026-03-19 15:01 -0400
            Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-05-10 13:20 -0400
              Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Michael Bäuerle <michael.baeuerle@gmx.net> - 2026-05-11 07:28 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-11 08:13 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Moses <moses.mason@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 02:31 -0400
              Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-05-11 07:29 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Moses <moses.mason@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 02:31 -0400
              Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> - 2026-05-14 15:35 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 23:12 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-05-15 04:39 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-05-15 11:21 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 11:22 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Dr Engelbert Buxbaum <engelbert_buxbaum@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-16 05:41 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Moses <moses.mason@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 02:31 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> - 2026-05-18 02:32 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Moses <moses.mason@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 02:31 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 07:10 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Moses <moses.mason@gmail.com> - 2026-05-19 06:01 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-05-19 07:33 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2026-05-19 14:40 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Moses <moses.mason@gmail.com> - 2026-05-20 05:15 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-05-19 14:25 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> - 2026-05-18 02:31 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> - 2026-06-03 17:41 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-06-04 02:26 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> - 2026-06-04 16:43 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> - 2026-06-05 02:09 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Moses <moses.mason@gmail.com> - 2026-06-17 02:08 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> - 2026-06-04 12:08 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> - 2026-06-04 16:25 -0400
                Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) - 2026-06-11 13:01 -0400
              Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-05-16 05:47 -0400
              Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* Moses <moses.mason@gmail.com> - 2026-05-18 02:31 -0400

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