Re: 3rd RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator

Greetings.
On 2025-03-11 16:12, Usenet Big-8 Management Board wrote:

Also on news.groups, Steve Bonine warned that when groups are removed,
the history associated with the contents of the group will disappear,
which could hinder people doing (historical) research.  He agreed that
removing the unused groups in the RFD would prevent users from wasting
their time posting into the void, but said that at this time it's not
worth the effort to delete them.  Winston shared Steve Bonine's
concern about the contents of deleted groups disappearing.  Computer
Nerd Kev said that converting the groups to unmoderated ones may work
around this problem.

Further to the above, we've started a thread in news.admin.misc to ask server operators about their policies and practices concerning rmgroup control messages and retention of articles in deleted groups: <news:vs7o7t$rie$1@reader1.panix.com>  We'd love to hear from further admins.
Regards,
Tristan
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