Xref: utzoo news.software.b:2571 alt.religion.computers:199 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.software.b,alt.religion.computers Subject: Re: Cnews lets outside control messages create groups Message-ID: Date: 16 Jul 89 19:12:28 GMT References: <1989Jul7.174914.22890@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <1989Jul9.040539.28044@utzoo.uucp> <1989Jul9.185601.28603@ladc.bull.com> <1989Jul10.045219.3927@utstat.uucp> <1989Jul16.050248.16940@vicom.com> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Followup-To: alt.religion.computers Lines: 29 In-reply-to: lmb@vicom.com's message of 16 Jul 89 05:02:48 GMT In <1989Jul16.050248.16940@vicom.com> lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) writes: LB> Creating newgroups and, particularly, changing the moderation status of LB> existing groups automatically is insanity. The default behavior should LB> not execute newgroup commands. Insanity? It would make an interesting defence in a trial, that is for certain. "You honour, my client clearly can not be held for his actions. Why, he even lacks the mental faculties to have defined NONEWGROUP in his B News configuration!" Balderdash. We have NORMGROUP here because of its destructive behaviour but newgroup messages are honoured. If the group is really bogus, like talk.bizarre.nice, I'll rmgroup is soon enough. In the meantime, junk gets a whole bunch of articles that my neighbours ship me because they think the group is valid. If the status was changed from unmoderated to moderated, it is mostly just an inconvenience for a short while. If the status was made unmoderated when it had been previously moderated, it is a pretty small window before someone sends through a message correcting the error. For example when the fiasco of a couple of months ago unmoderated a number of groups, two admins (Gene and someone else whose name eludes me) sent out all the messages necessary to correct the situation. All I had to do in all of that was rmgroup rec.games.rpg. Insanity indeed. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))