🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <BwsEM3.Iyz@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> xcea@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Chad Adams) writes:
|Did anyone else see this?  Automatically create a list all over usenet
|just because someone posts to it?  Sounds like a BIG problem to me.
|
|] newsgroup alt was created by news@tygra.Michigan.COM (USENET News Manager).
|] ===
|] Control: newgroup alt
|] Newsgroups: alt.config
|] Path: uxa.ecn.bgu.edu!psuvax1!wupost!gumby!destroyer!Tygra.Michigan.COM!news
|] From: news@tygra.Michigan.COM (USENET News Manager)
|] Subject: Newgroup alt
|] Reply-To: usenet@michigan.com
|] Organization: CAT-TALK Conferencing System
|] Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 16:28:36 GMT
|] Approved: newsd@news1.michigan.com (USENET News Auto-Manager)
|] Message-ID: <1992Oct21.162837.22231JPII@tygra.Michigan.COM>
|] Lines: 5
|] 
|] This group is not in our active file however a user posted to it
|] at our site, so it is being created automatically. 
|] 
|] THIS POSTING IS  GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY - PLEASE DIRECT REPLIES 
|] TO USENET@MICHIGAN.COM
|] ===
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|Chad Adams              __               Educational Computing Network
|Systems Programmer     /  ) /         /  University Park, IL  USA
|1-708-534-0200        /    /_  __, __/   ECN, networking in IL since 1975
|c-adams@bgu.edu      (__/ / /_/_/_(_/_   "Wherever you go, there we are."


I, for one, have a similar news-catcher which creates groups LOCALLY if
they are posted to here or abroad.  But POSTING a creategroup message in
this situation is moronic!