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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: removing groups: suggestion
Message-ID: <377@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 22:34:33 EST
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.377
Posted: Thu Mar 13 22:34:33 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 22:30:52 EST
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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     I would like to see rmgroup control messages taken right out of the
netnews  software.  What  I would  suggest in  their place is  a program
which  deletes  a  newsgroup *locally*.    Then  if  Spaf  wants  to zap
net.internat (to pick  an example which caused some furor a while  back)
because he feels it was created inappropriately, or  net.bizarre because
it's taking up too much of his time and money, he can cut it off totally
for his machine, which is really the only one I can see he has any right
to  dictate its  disposition on.   Or  the  backbone  can  quit carrying
net.flame, and it will probably continue around  the  edges  because the
net is so  strongly connected.  But the backbone  won't have any problem
with it.  Poor backbone, I don't know what they'll do if they don't have
any excuse to gripe about newsgroups eating up phone bills (:-).

     Note also that there is no problem with the clown news admins whose
idea of a great practical joke is to rmgroup net.news.

     Comments?

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