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From: frank@ladc.bull.com (Frank Mayhar)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews lets outside control messages create groups
Message-ID: <1989Jul9.185601.28603@ladc.bull.com>
Date: 9 Jul 89 18:56:01 GMT
References: <1989Jul7.174914.22890@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <1989Jul9.040539.28044@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: frank@ladcgw.ladc.bull.com (Frank Mayhar)
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In article <1989Jul9.040539.28044@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1989Jul7.174914.22890@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
>>I noticed today that Cnews lets incoming control messages have
>>their way (at least in creating groups).  [...]

I've noticed this too.  And, Geoff, I think what Todd means is that C news
should notify the news admin, _without_ performing the newgroup/rmgroup.
Then the news admin (me) could manually create or remove the group.

>Edit /usr/lib/newsbin/ctl/newgroup to do whatever you want.  It's a shell
>file.  See notebook/ctlmsg for some insight into how control messages work,
>if you haven't looked at it already.

Yeah, I could do that.  If I had time.  It seems to me, though, that there
should be a configuration parameter somewhere that would do the job for me,
a la NORMGROUP/NONEWGROUP in B news.

Otherwise, I'm quite happy with C news.  Sure as h*ll beats B news, speed-wise.
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