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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Newsgroups: news.groups
- Subject: Re: All your postings to this newsgroup might go wasted!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.200053.26891@uwasa.fi>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 20:00:53 GMT
- References: <1habh5INNkgn@apache.dtcc.edu> <1992Dec23.224153.25197@uwasa.fi> <1hfmvnINNr0l@apache.dtcc.edu>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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- In article <1hfmvnINNr0l@apache.dtcc.edu> weave@apache.dtcc.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.224153.25197@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
- >>... I suggested in news.groups that the rmgroup delay in the case of
- >>renaming newsgroups should be shortened from three months (which I
- >>hypothesize is one of the causes for the "debris") to 15 days.
- >
- >The problem with this is that if a user who doesn't read news every day
- >(there are some out there), go looking for a group that was renamed, and
- >find it is gone, may not know what it was renamed to.
-
- Granted, of course. There are problems with the long 3 month
- period, and there are problems with the 15 day suggestion. The
- question is which those problems are and which do we prefer. The
- point I am trying to make is that we should discuss whether the
- advantages of a shorter period outweigh the disadvantages or vice
- versa.
-
- One of the advantages of the three month period is that it is the
- current practice (= healthy resistance to change), and it certaily
- has others, too. But do they balance the disadvantages like
- increasing the probalility of persistent duplication, and the
- disruption caused to the replacing newsgroup?
-
- Please let's try to look at this analytically, if we can, since
- issues like these are not simple right / wrong situations, but
- rather balancing the pros and the cons.
-
- All the best, Timo
-
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- Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
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- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
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