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From: anand@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Anand Iyengar)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: I'm tired of alt.rissa!
Message-ID: <3073@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 11 Mar 89 22:18:10 GMT
References: <763@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: anand@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Anand Iyengar)
Organization: The Lab Rats
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In article <763@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>I'm looking for a hack. The newsgroup creation on the regular
>hierarchies is more-or-less under control, at least there are no
>rmgroup wars going on and I would expect flames galore if someone
>were to start one.
>
>HOWEVER, some *ssholes are in the business of creating alt groups as
>a prank, or as a public statement, or what have you.  Unfortunately,
>there being no constraint on creating alt groups, I really don't have
>any grounds for telling them to f*ck off. Though they should.
>
>The hack I'm looking for is to let inews create newsgroups when the
>newgroup comes in but only when it is not for an alt group.  Before I
>go into inews, has someone else already done this?
	A better hack would be to just not recieve the group at the
local sight.  Who cares if this guy creates a group, if you can't see it.
I personnally just unsub the group and don't hear any more about it, as
long as it isn't deleted/re-created.


							Anand.  
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