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In article <Eo&6&b6@cs.psu.edu> flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
#I'm going to be posting a checkgroups message about once a month in
#bit.admin.  Next one in about a week, after the List of Gateways comes out.

Good - a checkgroups message will be much better than more flocks of
newgroup/rmgroup messages.

I note that about a third of the bit.listserv groups have had no traffic at
all lately.  Can you remove the groups whose lists are no longer active?
Quite a few groups have NEVER had any articles in.     People are finding
the long active and .newsrc files a nuisance - and according to our main
feed site a performance problem too; they have started a debate on dropping
bit.all in the UK altogether.

Also, a few groups (e.g b.l.tex, b.l.virus) seem to match up with existing 
unewsgroups: can the mailing lists be gatewayed to those instead, so as to
avoid paying for transmitting the same material twice?

Finally, for people concerned with the volume, these have been the ten
highest volume groups recently (as seen at this site):

    7 days     Name
----------     ----
 172  354k     hellas
  63  282k     ibmtcp-l
  92  233k     christia
 144  219k     allmusic
 103  206k     novell
  90  176k     mbu-l
   6  158k     apple2-l
  46  102k     politics
  32   96k     i-amiga
  52   93k     games-l

I wonder if b.l.hellas could be merged with soc.culture.greek?
Most of the others look mergable too.       This would reduce the
exclusively listserv volume considerably, and make the remaining
traffic more acceptable to sites worried about volume.

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        David Wright           STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex  CM17 9NA, UK
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