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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: I'm tired of alt.rissa!
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Date: 11 Mar 89 00:23:33 GMT
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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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?

---
Bill
{ uunet | novavax } !twwells!bill
(BTW, I'm going to be looking for a new job sometime in the next
few months.  If you know of a good one, do send me e-mail.)