mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker) (07/15/88)
Greetings...
Within the past 24 hour period, I have received a flurry of messages changing
groups from moderated to unmoderated. Just a bit later I have received
messages from another site changing some of these same groups back to
moderated status.
What is going on?
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M/A-COM Government Systems Inc.wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) (07/15/88)
In article <182@chip.UUCP> mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker) writes: |Greetings... | |Within the past 24 hour period, I have received a flurry of messages changing |groups from moderated to unmoderated. Just a bit later I have received |messages from another site changing some of these same groups back to |moderated status. | |What is going on? | Someone at nfsun.UUCP messed up and sent out a bunch of newgroup control messages without the proper distribution line (either company or local) and some astute people noticed and undid the damage. Now just *what* is comp.ibm.binaries.d? and some astute people noticed and -- Bitnet: wcf@psuhcx.bitnet Bill Fenner | Internet: wcf@hcx.psu.edu | This space UUCP: {gatech,rutgers}!psuvax1!psuhcx!wcf | for rent Fido: Sysop at 263/42 |
clarke@acheron.UUCP (Ed Clarke) (07/16/88)
From article <182@chip.UUCP>, by mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker): = Greetings... = Within the past 24 hour period, I have received a flurry of messages changing = groups from moderated to unmoderated. Just a bit later I have received = messages from another site changing some of these same groups back to = moderated status. What is going on? I received the same messages, also a whole bunch of create newsgroups. The newsgroups already existed here (mostly). I suspect that a new node has come online and that the news admin is not really clear on 'inews -C'. It probably won't happen again and isn't worth flaming about. (Also - I did the same thing but my feed caught them before they got out to the net. So I tend to be a little forgiving ... ) Ed Clarke phri!acheron!clarke
news@etive.ed.ac.uk (Network News) (07/19/88)
Perhaps the default distribution for create messages should be "local"? This seems to be a common problem. Been bit by it myself. Scott Larnach
kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) (07/26/88)
In article <239@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes: >In article <182@chip.UUCP> mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker) writes: >|Within the past 24 hour period, I have received a flurry of messages changing >|groups from moderated to unmoderated. > >Someone at nfsun.UUCP messed up and sent out a bunch of newgroup control >messages without the proper distribution line (either company or local) Actually, the responsible individual (who is quite humbled and repentant) *did* specify a distribution line; the command was /usr/lib/news/inews -d world -C ... Not sure what possesed him/her (names have been changed to protect the guilty ;-) ) to specify 'world' distribution--the default of 'local' would have done the right thing. Anyway, I tried to stomp the things out before they got off ditka, but a few either leaked out this way or via nfsun's link to uunet. BTW, this might not have been quite so bad if more frequent--and more accurate--checkgroup messages came around. Haven't noticed one for a while now, and the last few I saw wanted to remove several quite live newsgroups. Anybody know what's happening? Spaf? -- Karl Swartz |UUCP {emoryu1,pacbell,decvax!formtek}!ditka!kls 1-412/937-4930 office | {pitt,psuvax1}!idis!formtek!ditka!kls |BIX kswartz "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." (Twain)