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Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caesar.cs.montana.edu!caesar!icsu6000
From: icsu6000@caesar (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Mistaken for a moderated newsgroup
Message-ID: <3433@caesar.cs.montana.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 90 10:49:31 GMT
References: <18008@rpp386.cactus.org>
Sender: news@caesar.cs.montana.edu
Reply-To: icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Followup-To: news.sysadmin
Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717
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In article <18008@rpp386.cactus.org> root@rpp386.cactus.org (Super user) writes:
>Someone recently created a newsgroup here in Austin for "Important
>Announcements", austin.announce.
>What exactly is causing this and what exactly can I do to stop
>it???



Some of the news software thinks that a newsgroup name with 'announce'
in it is a moderated group.  

I would venture to guess that's what it is.  I think B news does
this, I have no idea about C news.




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