Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: soc.human-nets, and removing groups in general Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 89 19:01:46 GMT References: <2091@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <995@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <1001@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: news.admin,news.groups Organization: OSU Lines: 13 In-reply-to: wisner@mailrus.cc.umich.edu's message of 13 Mar 89 04:06:27 GMT Xref: utzoo news.admin:5108 news.groups:7988 wisner@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Bill Wisner) writes: gnu.emacs.bugs is the result of a typo made by one of the OSU people No, it was a typo made by the admin at a school that started carrying gnu.* shortly after the subhierarchy's creation, and they newgroup'd the whole set, with this one glitch. I rmgroup'd it. Moral: When installing a whole bunch of new newsgroups, get the admin of the upstream feed to send you the relevant portion of his/her active file, and install that, raw, into your own active file, rather than execute massive newgroups. --Karl