Subj : Re: Nuked Echoes/not carried
To   : Andrea Santos
From : Gary Gilmore
Date : Fri Apr 13 2001 10:44 am

 AS> I've stated my case and feel we should be focused on presenting a
 AS> picture of relative health.          

Personally, I feel that an echo that's for some software and which might get 
very low traffic should be left be.  Just because there's nothing going on for 
a month or more doesn't mean that echo is really dead.  Someone might pop in, 
ask a help question, you'll get some answers, the person asking is happy, and 
it all goes quiet again.  No problem, and the echo has served a purpose, and 
someone got helped.  However, some echoes that are not like this, and don't get 
any traffic, should probably be retired.  My feeling is that a low/no traffic 
echo doesn't take up enough space or system resources to bother me.

As far as "health", I don't know.  Ever look at the newsgroup listing?  There's 
literally hundreds of groups that are completely dead there.  The number of 
dead groups keeps growing too.  No one seems to prune those out, and the 
internet (and newsgroup use) doesn't seem to be suffering for it.

Just a thought.  :-)

--gary

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