Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nfsun!ditka!kls
From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Moderation/Unmoderation change control messages
Summary: Please forgive my neighbor, who is still learning ...
Keywords: usenet news moderate newsgroups
Message-ID: <345@ditka.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 88 06:25:57 GMT
References: <182@chip.UUCP> <239@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Reply-To: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Organization: Inaction Central, Pittburgh, PA
Lines: 29

In article <239@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes:
>In article <182@chip.UUCP> mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker) writes:
>|Within the past 24 hour period, I have received a flurry of messages changing
>|groups from moderated to unmoderated.
>
>Someone at nfsun.UUCP messed up and sent out a bunch of newgroup control
>messages without the proper distribution line (either company or local)

Actually, the responsible individual (who is quite humbled and repentant)
*did* specify a distribution line; the command was

    /usr/lib/news/inews -d world -C ...

Not sure what possesed him/her (names have been changed to protect the
guilty ;-) ) to specify 'world' distribution--the default of 'local'
would have done the right thing.  Anyway, I tried to stomp the things
out before they got off ditka, but a few either leaked out this way
or via nfsun's link to uunet.

BTW, this might not have been quite so bad if more frequent--and more
accurate--checkgroup messages came around.  Haven't noticed one for a
while now, and the last few I saw wanted to remove several quite live
newsgroups.  Anybody know what's happening?  Spaf?

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