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santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp (Rafael &) writes:

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>To all concerned: I ask again. Nobody else can create fj.newsgroups ?

From you question(s), I suspect you don't understand how news works...

Any sysadmin can create any newsgroup on their system and send it
out on the net. But if it arrives on another machine, and *that*
sysadmin hasn't created the newsgroup, it will go to junk, a special
newsgroups used for that purpose. (Aegis gets between 10 and 100
articles per day that go to junk). 

The control message isn't a regular article and only new news
software and/or the sysadmin see them. There are other control
messages that can be sent to remove the newsgroup, cancel articles, etc. 

Saitoh-san is regarded as the person who reliably send out adgroup
control messages that tell us when to create the newsgroups. That
is, if I can control messages from somebody else, I ignore them.
(Aegis gets 1-5 bogus adgroup control messsages a week). 

So while it's too bad that Saitoh-san hasn't posted the adgroup
control yet, but we really can't afford to have everybody creating
newsgroups....

Dave

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