Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: newgroup that just notifies for C news?
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.195520.15722@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8949@wiley.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 19:55:20 GMT

In article <8949@wiley.UUCP> david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull) writes:
>Has anybody got a $NEWSBIN/ctl/newgroup that just mails notification
>to the newsmaster when it receives a newgroup control message instead
>of actually creating the group?  I've got it pretty much done, but I'm
>sure that someone else could do better.

There are several third-party variations of newgroup in my to-be-looked-at
queue, but I don't recall if that's one of them.

>Also, it appears that chamod assumes that the news system is already
>locked when it runs, so I can't just tell the newsmaster to run it
>directly...

That's right; the control-message programs are not meant to be run
manually.  You could run it from inside locknews (see newsmaint(8))
without problems, I think.

> Perhaps addgroup should be able to change the moderated-ness
>of an existing newsgroups as well as adding new ones.  (OK, so it would
>be trivial to write a wrapper around chamod, but I'd rather modify the
>stock C news as little as possible.)

Hmm, good point.  There ought to be some counterpart of addgroup that
would do this in an official way.  Stay tuned.
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