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From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
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Subject: Re: WHAT ARE THESE RMGROUP CONTROL MESSAGES?
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Date: 2 Jun 89 14:39:59 GMT
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In article <621@kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
>I just got a hold load of control messages.  One of which nearly
>wiped out my comp.sources.unix newsgroup.  The only reason it
>didn't was because someone misspelt comp as com.  Here's the
>entire list of control messages:
>
   [....]
>
>OK, who's the comedian.

Me.  No comedy intended.

Someone in the US accidently changed all those groups to unmoderated
and created the rec group.   I sent out messages to turn the groups
back to mdoerated and delete the bogus group.  Unfortunately, my
typing isn't so hot and I misspelled one of the group names (as you
noted).  I sent out a cancel message on the bogus "newgroup" and
followed up with a "rmgroup" in case the "cancel" didn't catch up with
the "newgroup" message -- we run NNTP every 5 minutes here.

If you did everything that the control messages from here said to do,
then your system would be back to normal (whatever that might be),
unless you don't carry some of those moderated 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