abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) (09/21/88)
Please excuse what may be a stupid question, but I'm confused about the status of the checkgroups control message. On about Sep. 13, our site received a Checkgroups message in the news.admin Newsgroup. The header was: ------------------------------------------------------- From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Checkgroups message (with INET groups) Message-ID: <4858@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 12 Sep 88 02:20:15 GMT Expires: 11 Dec 88 02:20:13 GMT Distribution: inet ------------------------------------------------------- Then on the 20th of Sep. we received a checkgroups control message with the following header: ------------------------------------------------------- From: wgh@Grumpy.UUCP (William G. Hutchison) Newsgroups: news.admin.ctl,control Subject: checkgroups Message-ID: <352@Grumpy.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 88 16:00:42 GMT Control: checkgroups Followup-To: news.admin.ctl Distribution: na Organization: UNISYS CS, Blue Bell, PA Lines: 311 Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.edu ------------------------------------------------------- Many newsgroups listed as valid in message #1 were missing in message #2. 1. Which of these is the valid list of legit. newsgroups? 2. Should I not be automatically running the checkgroups control message upon arrival at my site? Any information gratefully accepted. -- INTERNET: abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov BITNET: abrams@bnlux0.BITNET UUCP: ...philabs!sbcs!bnlux0!abrams
emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (09/25/88)
the checkgroups from "grumpy" was likely a simple mistate of not editing the Distribution line. Easy enough to do when you're bringing up a new site. You should not be running checkgroups control messages automatically. Have them be sent to you as mail and deal with them by hand. They're of the most use in regional and alternative distributions, since the backbone isn't issuing them anymore (just posting them to news.admin).
yba@arrow.bellcore.com (Mark Levine) (09/25/88)
I seem to have installed news in the interval between the positing of the non-INET and INET checkgroups message. Can someone give me a copy of the INET groups version or tell me where it might be retrieved? The groups seem to recreate themselves on receipt of new articles without a creation control message of inews -C command -- is this normal behavior? I thought even with NONEWGROUPS disabled the group had to be marked active in order for news (2.11) to make a spooling directory and place articles in it. Eleazor bar Shimon, once and future Carolingian yba@sabre.bellcore.com
spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) (09/28/88)
In article <622@bnlux0.bnl.gov> abrams@bnlux0.UUCP (The Ancient Programmer) writes: > ....various comments... > 1. Which of these is the valid list of legit. newsgroups? Probably the first one. > 2. Should I not be automatically running the checkgroups control > message upon arrival at my site? You should not be automatically running checkgroups messages. I haven't been issuing the actual checkgroups control message for some time now, so any actual "checkgroups" message is either a mistake or one intended for an alternate hierarchy. The checkgroups messages I post are in a regular submission rather than as the actual control message, and it has to be edited to be run for your local sites. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf