msc@qubix.UUCP (06/17/83)
Yesterday qubix received a control message from alice!news
cancelling the newsgroup fa.info-cpm. After checking the
latest list of active newsgroups from alice!alb, which arrived
about the same time as the rmgroup message, I decided that the
cancellation was in error so I did an inews -C to re-create it.
Now I have 2 questions.
1) Why am I being inundated with messages from various
news systems ranging from v2.6 to v2.10 complaining
about a misunderstood control message or some such
thing.
2) I saw no discussion about a pending cancellation and
the latest active newsgroup list says that fa.info-cpm
is still active. If an established group is to be
cancelled there should be some warning.
A suitable alternative would be to include in the rmgroup
message some text identifying the sender of the message
and the reason for the cancellation.
--
Mark
...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!qubix!msc
...{ittvax,amd70}!qubix!msc
decwrl!qubix!msc@Berkeley.ARPAalb@alice.UUCP (06/18/83)
The reason fa.info-cpm is on the latest list is because I posted it too early for it to be off. fa.info-cpm is DEAD. It is (and has been, for a few weeks now) replaced by net.micro.cpm -- the next newsgroup list will show this.