On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:31:55 GMT, "Irene Waters" 
  wrote: 
  
 > 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)... " 
  
 That may be true in theory.  In practice, if a group is dead, there 
 isn't much impetus for subsuming it into an existing group.  And these 
 days, it is all but impossible to get rid of a dead group altogether. 
 That is one reason for the emphasis on making certain there is an 
 active readership for a group before it is created. 
  
 BW 
  
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