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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.bugs.0bsd?
Message-ID: <5375@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 12-May-85 15:11:08 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 12 15:11:08 1985
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Reply-To: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
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Summary: 

In article <2698@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>I've seen a LOT of silly and unneccessary newgroup messages recently,
>folks. You don't NEED to send a control message to the world if you are
>bringing your site up to snuff -- an editor (even ed!) and the mkdir
>command work great. Please, don't send control messages out onto the net
>unless you know what you are doing

  I have found out that when I need a control message that I don't want
to be sent to the entire world, I just post it to our local control newsgroup
instead of the worldwide "control" newsgroup.
  Every site has (at least it should) a local control newsgroup  called
"to.your_site_name.ctl", For instance, ours is called to.ucla-cs.ctl .
(Don't look for it in the active file since it's not there).
  You can post any kind of control message (newsgroup, rmgroup, etc.) to it
and the effect is the same as posting it to "control", except that it is
not broadcasted outside your site.
  Next time, please think twice whether the control message you are about to
send needs to be broadcasted to everyone or not.
-- 
    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
    ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa      ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell