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Re: WBogus rmgroups?

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From: brodie
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 13:40
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In article <2111@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>   I have been seeing a lot of rmgroups lately, and I suspect that some
> are bogus.......
> 
>   ....Either these people are bogus, or they don't understand the proper way
> to send such a message. Could anyone legitimate not realize that
> responsible sites do these changes by hand and don't honor unexplained
> rmgroups from unknown people?
> 
>   Is this in the policy somewhere? Is there some majot news software so
> broken that the posters can't add the message?

I don't think that "policy" of any kind can remedy stupid news admins.....

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Subject: Re: WBogus rmgroups?
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