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From: sob@drillsys.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: removing groups: suggestion
Message-ID: <48@drillsys.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 07:09:57 EST
Article-I.D.: drillsys.48
Posted: Tue Mar 18 07:09:57 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Mar-86 05:33:26 EST
References: <377@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: sob@drillsys.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Organization: Teleco--Drilling Systems Technology Division, Houston, Tx
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Summary: rmgroup is a compile time option.

The way netnews is setup, the administrator can elect to do all
the rmgroup's manually. All s/he has to do is define MANUALLY when
s/he compiles the news. Your administrator may not want to bother 
with it and allows the rmgroup message to do the work automatically.

I disagree that removing it is a good idea. I believe that this control
message as well as all the others help keep the net running. Without
some automation, the local site administators would have to spend too
much time with news and not enough doing his/her "real" job.

Of course, this may not concern you. You may just be a consumer of
the netnews, a provider of opinion and not a volunteer to be sure that
it operates smoothly at your site.