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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: creating groups
Message-ID: <13792@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 00:55:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 18 00:55:44 1986
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Very frequently (too frequently) I get msgs addressed to usenet from
someone creating a newsgroup on their site which really didn't need to
go out to the whole world.

I create groups by editing the active file. I think the documentation
suggests using inews -C. Is there any reason for telling people to use
inews when editing the active file is about the same amount of work
and less likely to send out unnecessary msgs?

By the way, I started editing the active file when I turned off auto
newgroups and rmgroups and inews -C stopped working. It's not much
different in terms of time.

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