• 44 rmgroup messages in fr.*

    From Adam H. Kerman@ahk@chinet.com to news.admin.hierarchies on Sat Feb 14 01:10:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.hierarchies

    Good heavens. Some of those groups looked rather general.
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  • From Thomas Hochstein@thh@thh.name to news.admin.hierarchies on Sat Feb 14 12:27:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.hierarchies

    Adam H. Kerman schrieb:

    Good heavens. Some of those groups looked rather general.

    It doesn't matter if empty groups nobody uses are general or specific.

    | FWIW, we're starting the rationalization of fr.* tomorrow. Let's act!
    | The equivalent of the Big-8 Board for the French hierarchy sent a
    | message a couple of weeks ago to cut a half of the fr.rec.*
    | subhierarchy. We'll remove 44 newsgroups (out of 83) in fr.rec.* (as
    | announced in <fr.rec.20260123@localhost.local>).
    | Yes, we have much less newsgroups than the Big-8 so it's easier for the
    | inventory of dead newsgroups. The process will last a few months as it
    | will be done subhierarchy by subhierarchy. fr.rec.* was the one with
    | the most empty newsgroups; there will be less removals for the others.
    |
    | Some newsgroups had 1 or 2 discussions over the last year and naturally
    | were kept. Newsgroups squated and polluted by a few people too so as to
    | keep the trollers/spammers in "their" newsgroups and not pollute still
    | active and properly used newsgroups.
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    -thh
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  • From Adam H. Kerman@ahk@chinet.com to news.admin.hierarchies on Sat Feb 14 16:33:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: news.admin.hierarchies

    Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> wrote:
    Adam H. Kerman schrieb:

    Good heavens. Some of those groups looked rather general.

    It doesn't matter if empty groups nobody uses are general or specific.

    It's like you ignored four decades of arguments against newgroup
    proposals in configging discussion. You've literally made it so there's
    no place to post by rmgrouping the more general groups for those topics.

    That's not rationalization but actual harm.
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