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    From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 17:55:15 2025
    I saw myriad rmgroups in hun.* but no checkgroups. Just curious what
    newsgroups are sticking around or if the entire hierarchy is out of
    business.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Julien_=C3=89LIE?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 20:30:34 2025
    Hi Adam,

    I saw myriad rmgroups in hun.* but no checkgroups. Just curious what newsgroups are sticking around or if the entire hierarchy is out of
    business.

    I also saw them yesterday and wrote to Gábor Kiss, the sender of the
    rmgroup control articles.
    He confirmed there had not been any normal traffic in hun.* since
    several years. And after 30 years of service, he got tired and decided
    to remove it.

    One newsgroup was sticking around, and got removed a few hours ago.

    The hierarchy and its PGP key can be removed from control.ctl and PGPKEYS.

    RIP.

    --
    Julien ÉLIE

    « C'est une triste chose de songer que la nature parle et que le genre
    humain de l'écoute pas. » (Victor Hugo)

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to Julien on Sun Mar 2 20:36:19 2025
    Julien <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Hi Adam,

    I saw myriad rmgroups in hun.* but no checkgroups. Just curious what >>newsgroups are sticking around or if the entire hierarchy is out of >>business.

    I also saw them yesterday and wrote to Gabor Kiss, the sender of the
    rmgroup control articles.
    He confirmed there had not been any normal traffic in hun.* since
    several years. And after 30 years of service, he got tired and decided
    to remove it.

    One newsgroup was sticking around, and got removed a few hours ago.

    The hierarchy and its PGP key can be removed from control.ctl and PGPKEYS.

    RIP.

    I know that Russ prepended a note to HIERARCHY-NOTES that he's not
    maintaining it, probably two decades ago. Nevertheless, it has a list of defunct hierarchies in it.

    Would you add this information to the list with today's date?

    This should be documented.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Julien_=C3=89LIE?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 3 23:24:19 2025
    Hi Adam,

    I know that Russ prepended a note to HIERARCHY-NOTES that he's not maintaining it, probably two decades ago. Nevertheless, it has a list of defunct hierarchies in it.

    Would you add this information to the list with today's date?

    The legacy HIERARCHY-NOTES file is now here:
    http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/notes-about-hierarchies.html

    I recently integrated it to my web site.


    This should be documented.

    I agree it is worthwhile documenting.
    I have added a note for hun.*:

    Created in April 1995 by Nándor Horváth and Gábor Kiss, the
    Hungarian hierarchy eventually lost its normal traffic. It was
    totally and properly removed in March 2025 with 53 rmgroup control
    articles sent by Gábor, one of its co-founder.

    I hope it is enough for you. Otherwise, please tell me what you would
    like to add. Also, if you have other information to add to the new
    hierarchy notes, feel free to tell, and I'll gladly add them :)

    It makes me think I should update the notes for the microsoft.*
    hierarchy! Will do.

    --
    Julien ÉLIE

    « Audentes fortunat iuvat. » (Virgile)

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to Julien on Tue Mar 4 00:12:56 2025
    Julien <[email protected]d> wrote:

    I hope it is enough for you. . . .

    Thank you

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