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From: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Rmgroup on talk.religion? (yes, but be careful)
Message-ID: <352@catnip.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 22:46:21 EDT
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In article <1198@Diamond.BBN.COM> mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau) writes:
>We've recently seen two different rmgroup control messages for
>talk.religion.  Are these mistakes, or has talk.religion been
>renamed (or deleted entirely)?  So far, I've ignored these rmgroups
>assuming that talk.religion is indeed supposed to be created under
>the renaming scheme.  Any backbone admins care to clarify what's 
>going on?

As a couple of other responses have already pointed out, net.religion was
renamed to talk.religion.misc, not talk.religion.

-However-

A word of caution to people using the rmgroup script supplied with 2.10.3
(and possibly earlier versions) to kill talk.religion:  rmgroup will also
wipe out talk.religion.misc.  It won't harm the entries in the newsgroups or
active file, but the spool directory and all the articles will go.  Although
the spool directory will be recreated next time an article is posted, the
articles previously posted to talk.religion.misc will be gone forever.

Perhaps rmgroup should be made a little smarter?

-- 

Ben Broder
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