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Article #1123Re: DIS always adds newsbase\00000000.*
From: John Washington
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:00
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On Tuesday, in article <828491642snx@holly.demon.co.uk>
mcr@holly.demon.co.uk "Mark Rogers" wrote:
MR> The "code" to call '00000000' junk is ~\spool\news\ACTIVE, and I have
MR> indeed changed this. My point is that Addgroup is not looking at ALIAS,
I can see your point about consistency, that's something I often
get strong on myself. But, just curious, why would you change
the name of the junk group?
I used to change the internal names of my groups by hand, and
later by using a hacked addgroup. But it never occurred to me
to change the junk name, it seemed so recognisable as it was.
Was it Emerson who wrote "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds"?
:-)
--
John Washington
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