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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: New site, new newgroups
Message-ID: <690@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 03:14:04 EST
Article-I.D.: astrovax.690
Posted: Sat Nov 23 03:14:04 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 24-Nov-85 05:36:49 EST
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Reply-To: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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In article <1668@cuae2.UUCP> usenet@cuae2.UUCP (Heiby) writes:
>A new site appears to have come on line recently and has flooded the net
>with newgroup messages for a bunch of non-existant groups,...

I wish it would be more widely publicized that one does not have to use
inews -C *AT ALL* to add newsgroups to one's own site. Even inews -C with
a local distribution I consider dangerous and prefer to avoid when at all
possible.

All one has to do is edit a line into the active file (using the lines for
other groups as a model) and create a directory.  The last can be done for
multiple newsgroups by attacking a copy of the active file with an editor.
Basically you turn the dots in the newsgroup names to slashes to create a list
of directory names.  Then if this list is in file FILE you type:

	mkdir `cat FILE`

There are some complications like you have to be sure that before the directory
for a subgroup is created the directory for the group that contains it exists,
but you should get the idea.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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