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   Andrzej,   
      
   > It's very simple. Just subscribe control.rmgroup newsgroup on your   
   > newsserver.   
      
   Thanks, I would never have tought of that.   
      
   (doing some googeling in regard to that newsgroup name)   
      
   But isn't that group ment for /requests/ for removal (and subject to the   
   maintainers choices), not the actual deletions (meaning: excluding those   
   done from the maintainers dashboard) ?   
      
   And something else : I just took a peek into that group on ES, and the last   
   removed entry is of november last year.  It also contains names I cannot   
   remember having ever seen.   
      
   IOW, they look to be containing some newsgroup names that ES never offered,   
   as well as possibly missing locally deleted newsgroups, as they where not   
   requested by other newsgroup servers.   
      
   ... Which would mean that its not quite fit for my purpose (cleaning up my   
   local list of newsgroups).   
      
   > * control messages may expire like other messages and you can't see old   
   > messages.   
      
   Yep.  Though in the case of ES the retaining time seems to be at least a   
   decade (earliest entry is of march 2015). :-)   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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