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Article #4764Re: newgroup
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:38
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:38
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In article <1992Dec14.174342.679@metrosoft.com> gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) writes:
>I have what I would guess is the 'standard' newgroup
>script that comes with the C News software distribution.
>
>It has the unwelcome behavior of automatically adding
>new alt groups as they come along (even such fun groups as
>alt.hayco.sucks.mud) while doing nothing with new
>mainstream Usenet groups.
If legitimate new mainstream newgroup commands aren't being executed
properly, your system has a bug -- C News newgroup has never failed to
do this properly.
The newgroup command in the Performance Release, although somewhat
ill-documented, permits much greater local control over how newgroup
requests are handled.
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"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!utcsri!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: newgroup Message-ID: <BzBFwp.96I@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:38:47 GMT References: <1992Dec14.174342.679@metrosoft.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 19