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bit.admin.ctl?

#1407
From: Pete Chown
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1993 19:30
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I recently sent out rmgroup messages for a number of groups in the
altnet that had been given names like alt.foo.bar.ctl.  This normally
happens when someone doesn't know the correct way to issue a newgroup
message, sending out:

Newsgroups: xxx.ctl
Subject: newgroup xxx.ctl
Control: newgroup xxx.ctl

instead of:

Newsgroups: xxx.ctl
Subject: newgroup xxx
Control: newgroup xxx

(Note that even in the correct version, one .ctl suffix is required.)

While finding these groups I noticed that a group bit.admin.ctl has
been created, which has had no traffic for a long time.  Possibly it
has never had any.

Unless anyone has any objections, therefore, I will rmgroup it.  But
if anyone would like the group kept, just send me an e-mail.  I have
set followups to poster, since there seems little point in discussing
this on bit.admin (hopefully it is just a tidy-up, and not anything
controversial).
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From: pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown)
Subject: bit.admin.ctl?
Message-ID: <PC123.93Jun8203041@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Followup-To: poster
Sender: news@infodev.cam.ac.uk (USENET news)
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Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 19:30:46 GMT
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