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From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Behaviour of newly created newsgroups
Summary: feature
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Date: 25 May 89 18:05:21 GMT
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> The proper fix is for rn to treat a non-existant directory in the same way
> as a real one with no articles in it.   (rrn already does this).  Also,
> inews should create the directory anyway, just in case the site has an
> unfixed rn.

The fact that inews does not create the directory is a feature.
Site who do not have a full feed, but want a full active file
(so they can crosspost to groups they dont receive I guess) do
not want 500 empty directories sitting around.