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

On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:20:20 -0500, Christian Schumacher wrote:

Marco Moock on 05 Jan 2025 21:24:

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.

 
I second that.

Wouldn't be too worried, it doesn't look like many servers have honoured
the rmgroup command anyway, I use a perl script I wrote 20 years ago to
debug propagation for when someone claimed a post didnt get out, I
checked the 3 groups, but of the 9 other servers other than ours that it
tests against, only eternal september returned 411 (no such group) for
all 3, all other servers returned 211 (success), so it seems Marco's
personal crusade agaisnt usenet isn't exactly having the effect he
wanted, and would have been better off sending newgroup which should
remove the moderation flag, servers are more likely to honor them.

That's not to say other news servers, in particular the closed,
posting_registration_reqd and paid servers have not honored the rmgroups,
as I obviously can't test them, nor all open read access servers.

Tested: rec.arts.comics.info / rec.radio.broadcasting /
rec.arts.comics.reviews