Jason Evans <
[email protected]> wrote:
As a part of the Big-8 board, we are looking at doing another audit of
unused newsgroups in the big-8 hierarchies. I would like to know if
anyone would volunteer to run a report of newsgroups that have had
traffic since your server has been up. My own news server only has about
60 days worth of history. I would rather get a list of groups with a year
or more of history.
The report is a simple bash script found here: >https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tgeek77/Usenet_Scripts/main/ >Big-8_Report.sh
I will take the findings from here and subtract those newsgroups from the >canonical list from isc.org. Any unmoderated groups with little or no
traffic will be researched as possible candidates for deletion. Any
moderated groups with no traffic will have their last known moderators >contacted and will be handled separately.
Thanks for your help! Feel free to reply with any questions or email me
with the report results.
Oh dear gawd don't start this crap again. It's outrageous that
you would post this in news.admin.peering and not news.groups.
It accomplishes nothing. There are groups that are very low traffic
because no one posts into unless there's a specific reason to post. There are groups that no one will ever post into again. You CANNOT tell the
difference with this report.
Furthermore, there are groups that appear to have traffic, but it's just
idiots crossposting or some cron job reposting articles from the Web to
Usenet. That's not Usenet being used for discussion. Such groups
are entirely useless.
rmgrouping doesn't actually make newsgroups go away. Not every News administrator would honor your checkgroups, especially if he has allows
long expirations and has articles going back years, or decades.
Recognizing a shorter list of newsgroups is not a worthwhile goal. It doesn't force traffic into existing groups and it could harm the possibility of a
group being used in future if there's a reason to post to it.
There are no inodes to be saved any longer.
I cannot emphasize enough how absolutely outrageous it is to post
something like this in the peering newsgroup and not news.groups.
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