On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:28 am, Shal Farley wrote:
jeffp,
Mark answered my submission to [email protected]. His answer was very
concise:
We don't currently recycle group names except when asked. If you run
into this, you can email us and we're recycle a given name for you.
That's not at all the answer I would have expected. Or rather, I would have expected that answer for the primary group names, but not the names of subgroups.
However I just verified it in my test group.
I don't see a reason for this restriction on subgroup names. I think it must be just an artifact of the subgroup implementation being largely the same as primary group implementation.
Shal
I agree that it is a bit of a surprise. And as I work with the group we're planning on transferring soon, I keep thinking that having that subgroup around - but locked down - is going to cause confusion for our members. I need to talk with the other moderators about it, but we may delete it and then ask Mark to make the name available to us again in the future.
It seems that - at least in most cases - subgroups would be created only by owners or moderators, not regular users. In such a case, the deletion of a subgroup should be a relatively rare thing, and not something done lightly. Making the names available again in that case seems rational, but maybe it's a challenge in the system as it is implemented.
In any case, we'll get by. It's just not a place where this system follows the principle of least surprise.
