Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> writes:

> As we speak of historic hierarchies (net.*), the microsoft.* one has
> also been stalled since 2009 when the msnews.microsoft.com server was
> shut down. Nonetheless, the newsgroups are still in the wide, and some
> of them are active. So maybe microsoft.* should remain in control.ctl
> but the comment adapted?

> # Control articles for that hierarchy are not issued by Microsoft itself
> # but by a Usenet active participant in order to improve the quality of
> # the propagation of Microsoft newsgroups. Their official URL is:
> # http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx

> => I suggest to make it unmanaged and remove PGP key & administrative
> stuff. Unless someone has a better advice about that?

Well, I think it's partly up to you whether you want to continue to
maintain the hierarchy. If you don't, then making it unmanaged makes
sense, and I can understand why you may not want to take on management of
the hierarchy rather than just relaying Microsoft's group list.

That said, it's still in active use, so having a source of a canonical
group list is useful. So would pruning out the groups that no one is
using if anyone felt like doing that. Obviously, you don't have to take
that on and anyone who does that doesn't even need to use the same private
key (we can always update configurations later), but it might be an easier
transition to keep using the same one.

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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>