Re: How does your server handle rmgroup control messages?

Tristan Miller wrote:

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.

If those groups have been disused for years, their content will have
expired long ago. Servers with very long retention times for archive
purposes won't remove groups.

1. Is your server set up to process control messages to remove groups,
or does it automatically ignore them?  If it does process them, is this
process automatic or does it require manual intervention?

Depends on the hierarchy. rmgroups for managed hierarchies with signed
control messages will beprocesd automatically.

2. If your server does process control messages, what action does your
server normally take for an rmgroup?

It will remove the group entirely.

3. How long does your server retain articles in deleted groups, and is
this retention limit any different from that of active groups?

Articles in deleted groups are gone.

-thh