alb@research.UUCP (01/24/84)
Well, some ignorant fool has decided that he knows something the rest of us don't and has gone and recreated a bunch of groups that have been removed over the years. Here is at least a partial list: net.admin net.4bsd-bugs net.auto.all net.bell.bocmug net.bugs.u3 net.celts net.cse.cai net.games.rog net.games.rogu net.games.triv net.groups.control net.info-micro net.info.terms net.joke net.lang.pasca net.limerick net.lisp net.micro.appl net.micro.atar net.motorcycle net.movies.sw.ctl net.needed net.msg.ctl net.news.confi net.news.newsi net.news.configuration net.newsite net.periph net.oa net.rec.disk net.rumors net.sport.base net.sport.foot net.site net.telecom net.unix-wizar net.unix-wizard net.unix.wizar net.unix.wizard net.unix.wizards These groups, as all of you (except him, obviously) can see, were removed for one reason or another and should not be around. Therefore, I am going to remove them again. Adam [Note - I haven't seen what happened yet, but I suspect someone made some spectacular mistake, instead of deliberately recreating these. They should certainly be removed. An easy way to remove them all, if you don't have a shell script and don't want to remove them all by hand, is to edit the above list to turn . into / and make a shell script reading something like rm -rf net/admin rm -rf net/4bsd-bugs rm -rf net/auto/all etc and run this from /usr/spool/news. You should also remove the lines from your /usr/lib/news/active file, they are probably all at the end and can be removed as a group. - Mark Horton]