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From: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: What to do with unknown newsgroups.
Message-ID: <297@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 15-Mar-87 07:55:05 EST
Article-I.D.: dcl-csva.297
Posted: Sun Mar 15 07:55:05 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Mar-87 03:16:22 EST
References: <43152@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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In article <43152@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
>Does anyone still think that the unknown groups should be preserved or
>should a future patch remove the unknown newsgroups?

It should remove them.  A more important reason is that, for example, although
Europe doesn't get talk.* newsgroups, many sites think we do because of the
cross-posted articles from other newsgroups we *do* get!  Then these users post
to a talk.* newsgroup and those articles get junked with no warning to the
poster.

Also, my /usr/lib/news/errlog keeps filling up with "unknown newsgroup
talk.whatever not localized".  This file should not grow quickly or news
administrators will be discouraged from looking at it.
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