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From: SRWHMAS@windy.dsir.govt.nz (Mark Stephens)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: /CREGRP creating groups via cross-posting
Message-ID: <718@windy.dsir.govt.nz>
Date: 13 Oct 89 15:05:42 GMT
Organization: DSIR Wellington, NZ
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Hi. I've only just started reading this group, so forgive me if this
question has been asked before.

NEWS comes into our site via mail in batch, and is added using the
/CREGRP qualifier. This doesn't seem to stop news from creating
groups from cross-posted articles, even if the groups in question
are not in NEWS.SYS. eg we don't want ALT.* groups (ie these are not
listed in the NEWS.SYS file, but we still get alt groups created.
Is there a way to stop this? Have I got something set up wrong?

Thanks,
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Mark Stephens                   "We crashed a thousand yards below...
Programmer and other things      I said 'do it again! do it again!' "
DSIR/DIT, Wellington, NZ.           - the Man Who Sold the World
"genie@windy.dsir.govt.nz"