Xref: utzoo news.admin:5076 news.groups:7944 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tank!uxc!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mailrus!purdue!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: soc.human-nets, and removing groups in general Message-ID: <6226@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 13 Mar 89 00:44:17 GMT References: <2091@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <995@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU Reply-To: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Distribution: news Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 14 In article tale@pawl.rpi.edu writes: >So why don't checkgroups go out bi-annually or at least yearly? They go out monthly in news.admin. However, they aren't sent as control messages -- you have to extract the text and run it yourself locally. I don't post them as worldwide control messages because I get back hundreds of bounced mail messages, strange error notices, and more than a few death threats because people had their news configured oddly and it destroyed their pet local groups. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf