rec.toys.lego vs alt.toy.lego Question

[Tom Pfeifer]

In article <koblasD0...@netcom.com>, kob...@netcom.com (David Koblas) writes:
|> In article <3c2ah0$g...@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
|> Preston F. Crow <cr...@coos.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
|> >In <3c1p1l$a...@nic.iii.net> ghk...@iii.net (Greg Koski) writes:
|> >
|> >>Why do two lego newsgroups exist with this one being quiet?
|> >>I guess I mean why does this one exist if most people are on
|> >>the other?
|> >
|> 1 year and 11 months ago I created alt.toys.lego, since I didn't think
|> that rec.toys.lego would pass a vote without some precidence...
|>
|> 11 months ago, I caused the creation of rec.toys.lego and rec.toys.misc
|> based on the success of alt.toys.lego.
|>
|> alt.toys.lego is "dead", but I doubt that it will ever be removed,
|> since removing a group is 1000 times harder than creating it. It
|> takes administrative intervention, while creation is "open".
|>

A few months after r.t.l. was created I sent a control-message for removing
the obsolete group a.t.l
While most of the server obviously did remove it, I got several messages
from servers where removing is deliberatly locked. So a.t.l still exists as
a ghost. In our local news server postings are aliased into r.t.l.

Tom