Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Newsgroups question...
Message-ID: <1990May25.172804.8840@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <251@epicb.com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 90 17:28:04 GMT

In article <251@epicb.com> dean@truevision.com (Dean Riddlebarger) writes:
>When a new newsgroup is created locally, using the /usr/lib/news/inews -C
>command, I am prompted for a brief description of the group.  Where
>does this description go? ...

It goes into the control-message article that creates the group.  This
is actually a bit pointless nowadays, since "inews -C" doesn't send the
article to any other machines, but...
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