Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!lsuc!eci386!clewis
From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews lets outside control messages create groups
Message-ID: <1989Jul20.214015.14951@eci386.uucp>
Date: 20 Jul 89 21:40:15 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>
Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
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In article <1989Jul16.050248.16940@vicom.com> lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair) writes:

>Creating newgroups and, particularly, changing the moderation status of
>existing groups automatically is insanity.  The default behavior should
>not execute newgroup commands.

It's not the default in B-news either!

I was wondering whether anybody would mention that...

I will freely admit that it's a little easier to find and uncomment
the NONEWSGROUPS during B-news installation than to know to look for
and find the source and change it in C-news, but that does beg one point:

Most novice administrators would leave NONEWSGROUPS off anyhow because
they don't have the slightest idea of what happens when they leave it off.

Even some non-novice administrators (like me - I contributed some of
bug reports that were actually accepted by Geoff (! ;-)) in C-news Alpha) 
*still* leave NONEWSGROUPS off.  I'll implement my automated "alt" 
group killer soon.... ;-)
-- 
Chris Lewis, R.H. Lathwell & Associates: Elegant Communications Inc.
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