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From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.news.sa
Subject: Re: how do I create non-local, non-worldwide groups?
Message-ID: <1641@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 09:50:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: mnetor.1641
Posted: Tue Jul 30 09:50:17 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Jul-85 11:16:56 EDT
References: <10090@Glacier.ARPA>
Reply-To: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Summary: 

In article <10090@Glacier.ARPA> reid@Glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes:
>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.

It's even simpler than your suggested solution - because you have
your own "su" newsgroup qualifier.  First, ensure that your "sys" file 
only forwards "su" newsgroups to your own sites.  Then, do:

	inews -C su.<newsgroup>

It works because inews sends the control message out as su.<newsgroup>.ctl
and the forwarding mechanism will only send it out to systems that
are supposed to receive su newsgroups.  

That seems to be all you need.  We have been doing the same with our
multiple internal sites, and as far as I know, none of the creates have
ever gotten outside.  We're running 2.10.2 too.
-- 
Chris Lewis,
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