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From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: improvement request to the checkgroups message + new control message
Message-ID: <233@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 10:40:37 EST
Article-I.D.: dcl-csva.233
Posted: Wed Feb 18 10:40:37 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Feb-87 07:40:10 EST
Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
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You may recall that, in patch #3 to 2.11 news, a change was made to the
"checkgroups" control message behaviour in that the only groups checked were
those whose first part matched the first part of any newsgroup in the message
itself.  Here in Europe, we do not receive any talk.* groups, and the
checkgroups message sent out by Europe's maintainer therefore doesn't tell the
news administrator to delete any talk.* groups.  So I propose that, if a line
like:

!talk

is present in the checkgroups message, that means that no talk.* groups are
allowed.

Finally, how about a control message to request your neighbour's active file?
This would be useful to check that you've got the correct groups.  This is
especially important because, if you have a newsgroup your neighbours don't
have, your neighbours will silently junk it.
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