As of January 2011, there are about 1000 groups that received less than one post per day in the last 18 months. It is not feasible to use the conventional procedure for such a high number.

* There have been no independent proponents tackling this problem in the past. It is unlikely that that will change.
* Flooding news.announce.newgroups and news.groups.proposals with hundreds of almost identical posts will do no good.
* Flooding hundreds of groups with almost identical posts will do no good. 

In 2007 the board approved a policy for removing extremely-low-traffic unmoderated groups. This policy does not address the crucial issues, though.