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From: klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Stopping unauthorized checkgroups messages?
Message-ID: <713@hadron.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 01:18:43 GMT
References: <1231@cos.com>
Reply-To: klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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In article <1231@cos.com> asp@cos.com (Andrew S. Partan) writes:
>I noticed that someone (root@altel.UUCP in <21@altel.UUCP> and
><22@altel.UUCP>) sent out 2 checkgroups messages to the whole net.
>Neither was what Spaf had posted.  This also happened last month (a
>different person, if I remember properly).
>
The one I got indicated that EVERY SINGLE newsgroup in my active file
needed to be deleted.  Fortunately, it is close enoough to April 1st to
just ignore those kinds of things.

Kurt