egb (06/03/82)
I like the control messages sent to the news administrator when new newsgroups are created and when someone asks for my sys or uuname listings. In fact, i like them so much, that i want to be able to answer them; either in the affirmative or negative. I want to be able to say yea or nay whether some arbitrary person can request my uuname or sys listing AND whether a new newsgroup is created. They should not be automatically created on my machine. A simple mail response format like ^newgroup=net.suicides yes would do the trick. (Note, the carot above is a RE symbol.) Since most modern mail pgms (even mine which is a modified 4.0 mail command) can answer mail, this would be an interactive response and would happen quickly. A rather simple program run by the cron command could read "usenet"'s mail every day and execute the commands. In fact, this could be generalized to accept other system administration commands. ^uuname to x/y/z/presley no ^sys to harpo yes ^removegroup net.suicides yes et cetera. Comments?