# Off-line newsgroups

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/off-line-newsgroups/27838>\
**Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\
**Created:** [January 26, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/off-line-newsgroups/27838 "2016-01-26T18:52:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/off-line-newsgroups/27838/1 "2016-01-26T18:52:01Z")

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Every once and a while I still check several of the old Novell  
discussion newsgroups. I use Thunderbird as my reader and am getting  
the following messages for several newsgroups:

The newsgroup novell.support.netware.6x.administration-tools does not  
appear to exist on the host [nntp.netiq.com](http://nntp.netiq.com)

The newsgroup novell.support.netware.6x.install-upgrade does not appear  
to exist on the host [nntp.netiq.com](http://nntp.netiq.com)

The newsgroup novell.support.netware.6x.abends-hangs does not appear to  
exist on the host [nntp.netiq.com](http://nntp.netiq.com)

Are these now officially off-line?

Thanks,  
tBM

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**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/off-line-newsgroups/27838/2 "2016-01-26T19:11:18Z")

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Yes, I believe several of these were removed just last week. NetWare 6.x  
is pretty ancient, and there are still OES NetWare forums which are for  
current stuff.

Kim is pretty targeted when he removes something; generally it is after  
having no legitimate posts for a long time (years) because folks are in  
the newer-version’s forums. Without doing this the older forums become a  
target for spamming scum, so they require constant monitoring like all  
others, but with no benefit for people who haven’t sold their souls.

–  
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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/off-line-newsgroups/27838/3 "2016-01-26T20:17:50Z")

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THX

On 01/26/2016 12:11 PM, ab wrote:[color=blue]

> Yes, I believe several of these were removed just last week. NetWare 6.x  
> is pretty ancient, and there are still OES NetWare forums which are for  
> current stuff.
> 
> Kim is pretty targeted when he removes something; generally it is after  
> having no legitimate posts for a long time (years) because folks are in  
> the newer-version’s forums. Without doing this the older forums become a  
> target for spamming scum, so they require constant monitoring like all  
> others, but with no benefit for people who haven’t sold their souls.  
> [/color]

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tBM 🙂

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**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/off-line-newsgroups/27838/4 "2016-01-27T00:17:22Z")

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FYI the products who’s forums have been removed are now out of “Self  
Support” in the product lifecycle. Just removing clutter.

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Kim - 1/26/2016 3:16:41 PM