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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: I'm tired of alt.rissa!
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Date: 13 Mar 89 04:30:48 GMT
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In article <3073@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> anand@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Anand Iyengar) writes:
: >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.

That's fine for this one group. But I want to cut this out for the
whole hierarchy. The latest stupidity is alt.rmgroup!

:               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.

Except, of course, that they *are* being deleted/re-created.

Fortunately for me, the hack already exists. Apparently it is a
feature added in the new version of the news software.  While I'm not
going to apply the patches wholesale, since they seem to be buggy, I
will go and try to fish out the relevant pieces for solving my
problem.

---
Bill
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