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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: rmgroup misc.vogon-news
Message-ID: <460@bacchus.DEC.COM>
Date: 22 May 88 03:23:12 GMT
References: <9287@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid)
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In article <9287@eddie.MIT.EDU> wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:

(various woof woof calling me names for sending out an rmgroup on
misc.vogon-news).

Vogon News is an internal DEC mailing list. Such mailing lists normally need
explicit approval to be broadcast outside the company. Decwrl, the gateway,
is charged among other things with preventing company confidential
information from leaving the company. I am one of the people who runs decwrl.
Therefore I consider that rmgrouping it first and exploring the issue later
is part of my job.

The person inside DEC who added the UCB gateway to the mailing list is not
authorized to send such lists outside the company. I read Vogon news every
day and I don't want to deny others of you the opportunity to read it every
day, but we have to go through channels on this or the people who pay for our
gateway will get angry.

Until then I will continue to send out rmgroups on it and I will send out
cancel messages on articles that leak out.