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In article <57vkda$lfv@news2.Belgium.EU.net>, mike.verdugt@ping.be wrote:

> Why not just delete be.providers.freenet, or clean it up.
> It's always been a waste of space....

That's precisely the problem: once created it is virtually impossible to
delete a newsgroup.

BTW, on the general points raised in this thread: there is no reason to
extend the be.* hierarchy if there are no people who will use it. In
general, there is no need to split a group (like be.misc) unless it has
about 100 posts a day at least (that's the limit when it starts being
tedious to skim more headers every day in order to discard all that does
not interest you).

Belgian and foreign collectors are very welcome to post all their requests
and information here on be.misc and beef up its traffic a little (just make
sure your subject line is sufficiently descriptive).

The creation limit of 30 YES votes is in fact too *low*; the big
hierarchies have a minimum of 100 votes. I know the Net reaches far more
people in the US, but that's irrelevant: what counts is the number of
people who will read and contribute to a newsgroup, and 100 is not so much,
bearing in mind that ordinary users will hardly post more than once a week
on average in the long run.

Just my 2 centimes on the matter :^)
-- 
Dr. Denis Constales - dcons@world.std.com - http://cage.rug.ac.be/~dc