From: irene_watersnospam@earthlink.net 
  
  wrote 
 snip but suggestions read 
 > The problem with dead 
 > groups?  We can't get rid of them (no mechanism for it) 
  
 The Guidelines for Big 8 Newsgroup Creation, routinely posted here, say 
 otherwise: 
  
 "3. A proposal must consist of one or more of the following changes to Big 
     Eight newsgroups:  Create a new newsgroup, remove an existing 
     newsgroup (by subsuming it into an existing group)... " 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
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