How to discontinue a group?

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#396

Author: day
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00

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A listserv to which I belong is mirrored in the bit.listserv domain. We
as a group no longer wish to maintain that connection, which we voted to
create a number of years ago. The mirror newsgroup's continued existence
is now more of a problem than a help to the members, and apparently is
no longer being read by interested persons.

I hope someone here can answer my questions:

  1. Is there a procedure to terminate the existence of a newsgroup?
  I find plenty of help for bringing a proposed new group to a vote, but
  nothing about how to kill an existing one!

  2. Is there a way of at least disassociating the newsgroup (which would
  die of languishment) from the listserv mailing distribution process?

Many thanks for any help!

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Dorothy Day			
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University
day@indiana.edu

Re: How to discontinue a group?

#397

Author: MIKEHOLLOWAY
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00

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In article <6i7saa$dbe$2@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>,
day <day@indiana.edu> wrote:
>
>  1. Is there a procedure to terminate the existence of a newsgroup?

If you're mirrored through American.edu, you have to get the news admin
there to kill the group.  This may not be easy.  They aren't answering
e-mail lately.

Here are some addresses to try:
unix-admin@american.edu - Mail about the Unix servers and Listserv.

news-admin@american.edu - Mail about mail2news gateways.

news@news.american.edu - Mail about the news server.

einfo@american.edu - Mail about the web server.

postmaster@american.edu - Any E-Mail Problems.

hotline@american.edu - Problems using anything else at AU.

hersch@american.edu (Herschel Browne) - boss.

Re: How to discontinue a group?

#407

Author: Peter M. O'Donnell
Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 00:00

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MIKEHOLLOWAY (Holloway@cris.com) wrote:
: In article <6i7saa$dbe$2@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>,
: day <day@indiana.edu> wrote:
: >
: >  1. Is there a procedure to terminate the existence of a newsgroup?
: 
: If you're mirrored through American.edu, you have to get the news admin
: there to kill the group.  This may not be easy.  They aren't answering
: e-mail lately.

	it is as easy as asking. i have the keys to bit.*, ergo only i can
remove them.

	unix-admin@american.edu is always the best choice.

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