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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: addgroup won't alert users of new group
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.032634.9289@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Nov9.004641.17111@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 03:26:34 GMT

In article <1990Nov9.004641.17111@ssd.kodak.com> dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) writes:
>...'addgroup ispd.general y'.  The group was created properly, but
>no one is alerted to the fact that the group was created when they
>call up rn.  Whenever a new group is established on the net I am
>questioned whether or not I want to subscribe to it, why wasn't I 
>asked for the local group?

Possibly because there are no articles in it yet?  Rn may consider
that, not the creation of the group, to be the time when it should ask.
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