🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <6m8tm3$6lj@edrn.newsguy.com>, mike@newsguy.com wrote:
>In article <6m8jvh$3ng_002@gemery.tiac.net>, gemery@tiac.net says...
>>
>>
>>We have removed the gateway for fire-l@cornell.edu  and the 
>>bit.listserv.fire-l  back in April,   but since the NG still exists in NG 
>>land, we are still getting hit with the spam posts.
>>
>>How do we get this newsgroup removed totally.  We need to get these posts 
>>stopped.
>>
>
>You might want to send out a remove group message through the control.rmgroup
>newsgroup. If you refer there on your news server, you can review some of the
>other posts for the proper protocol in putting the message together. Once
>posted, it will propagate to other news servers to remove the group.
>
This is the wrong advice. bit.* is not an uncontrolled hierarchy
like alt.* but a controlled hierarchy so that for sites which have
configured their news software properly only control messages from the
person in charge of the hierarchy will be honored (this used to be
jim@american.edu, I am not sure what is currently being used). I checked
and no such rmgroup message was sent out for bit.listserv.fire-l
So you need to contact him (although he will probably read this
thread sometime in the next few days and act upon it).

When you say the newsgroup is getting hit with spam posts you mean
just the newsgroup (or both newsgroup and mailing list)? 

-- 
Jonathan Grobe
For millions of used, out-of-print and collectable books try:
Advanced Book exchange: <http://www.abebooks.com>