Re: 1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator

Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

On 05.01.2025 09:04 Uhr noel wrote:

If nobody is moderating the groups, why not unmoderate them instead
of removing them, if they get use, fair enough, if not, there is no
harm, no extra resources used other than a handful of bytes for a one
line entry in active file which already has thousands of unmoderated
groups that haven't been posted to in 10 years anway.

The group lists are full of unused groups and that makes finding active
groups much harder, so cleaning that up is always a good idea. We are
here to discuss which of the groups might be still relevant and might
be revived.

A simple keyword search of the newsgroups file will allow the user to
find groups of interest to subscribe to. Actually posting to the group
on topic with something of interest to say is the only way to determine
if some will post a followup.

We don't require a mass purge of unmoderated Big 8 newsgroups either.