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From: gih900@csc.anu.oz (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: /CREGRP creating groups via cross-posting
Message-ID: <866.2546feff@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 26 Oct 89 12:56:31 GMT
References: <718@windy.dsir.govt.nz>
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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In article <718@windy.dsir.govt.nz>, SRWHMAS@windy.dsir.govt.nz (Mark Stephens) writes:
> 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?

/CREGRP is not that smart - every newsgroup in all incoming headers is created
on the local system. In general /CREGRP is not a good idea. To establish what
newsgroups are valid for your area you need to get fed an incoming "Control:
checkgroups" posting which will correctly set up your network newsgroups.

Geoff Huston