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From: reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.news.sa
Subject: how do I create non-local, non-worldwide groups?
Message-ID: <10090@Glacier.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 01:08:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: Glacier.10090
Posted: Sun Jul 28 01:08:04 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Jul-85 04:49:10 EDT
Reply-To: reid@Glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid)
Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab
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Over the years it is pretty common to see an embarassing control message
sent out by an SA, followed by a hurried apology. I've just combed the
documentation for 2.10.2 news and can't find a word on this topic.

Stanford's cluster of netnews machines has grown to the point where it is no
longer reasonable for me to log on to each of them and manually create new
groups. Our distribution code is "su"; I'd like to be able to send out
newgroup control messages creating "su.news", "su.forsale", and that kind of
thing, and make sure that the right thing happens. The "right thing" is that
I want this control message to go to every machine in the "su" distribution,
but nowhere else, and I want it to create a new newsgroup on every machine
in the "su" distribution.

From reading the 2.10.2 documentation, it seems to me that the way I would
do this would be to post a message like this:
	Newsgroup: net.ctl
	Distribution: su
	Subject: newgroup su.news
However, before I actually do this, I'd like to check with some of you wiser
wizards to make sure this will not dump an embarassing newgroup message all
over the universe.
-- 
	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA