From: spam@bde-arc.ampr.org 
  
 "Whiskers"  wrote in message 
 news:20071111134648.5DF1.1.NOFFLE@ID-107770.user.individual.net... 
 > My own personal local news-server rejects groups with 'invalid' names (but 
 > allows those with a leading numeral). 
  
 OK.  Thank you for the insight.  I'll probably keep the helpdesk but 
 killfile 
 the others as spam carriers. 
  
 > As far as the public news-servers are concerned, I suspect that weeding out 
 > the inactive groups from their feed is probably a matter of the 
 > administrator's awareness, inclination, and time.  End users don't have to 
 > subscribe to groups they aren't interested in so it isn't really a problem 
 > is it? 
 > 
 > "Inactive" is probably a fairer judgement to apply than "not named in 
 > accordance with the RFCs". 
  
 That's always true.  No need too keep an unused group. 
  
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