Xref: utzoo news.groups:11798 news.admin:6630 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!usc!skat.usc.edu!kriz From: kriz@skat.usc.edu (Dennis Kriz) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: SRH (soc.rights.human) is up, but with problems Message-ID: <19456@usc.edu> Date: 25 Aug 89 18:47:35 GMT References: <19391@usc.edu> <19424@usc.edu> <70641@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Sender: news@usc.edu Reply-To: kriz@skat.usc.edu (Dennis Kriz) Followup-To: news.groups Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 21 To clear this all up... Having "talked" to Greg Woods via e-mial... probably the best thing to get out of this whole thing is that Greg and Spaf are not the only ones who send legitimate newgroup creation messages. As the guidelines indicated, the vote-taker and/or the news administrator on the vote-taker's machine can also send such messages. The way to check whether or not the group is legitimate is to check the voting results that have to be posted at least 5 days beofre the newgroup command is set. If there was a vote, the group passed, and there was no objection to the results posted, then ... the newgroup command sent to create it is legitimate... whether or not Greg Woods or Spaf sent the message. Check the appropriate section of the new-newsgroup formation guide. Take care... dennis