tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) (04/23/87)
Well, I now know what happened to tedk@laidback.UUCP, who sent out all those newgroup control messages with the "moderated" keyword missing. I'm afraid I have just done the same thing. Some of the new groups didn't get created here, for reasons still undetermined. I asked rick@seismo if repeat newgroup messages would be sent, and he said no, I should create them by hand. He sent along a shell script for doing so, which I ran without looking at it too closely... turns out it was his script for sending out the newgroup messages! Moreover, it seems that 2.10.3 inews doesn't copy the "moderated" keyword from its command line into the outgoing message. Thus the script sent out bogus newgroup messages. The first thirty or so bogus newgroups have already propagated offsite and are probably beyond catching. If you already repaired tedk's damage, you'll have to do it over for: comp.ai.digest comp.binaries.amiga comp.sources.amiga comp.society comp.compilers comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest comp.sys.masscomp comp.sys.sequent comp.sys.sun comp.graphics.digest soc.human-nets comp.sys.mac.digest comp.binaries.mac comp.sources.mac comp.org.fidonet rec.mag.otherrealms comp.mail.maps rec.music.gaffa comp.newprod news.lists comp.os.research comp.os.os9 comp.unix Awfully sorry about this ... (PS: the control messages went out from "netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu", but I'm posting this message under my own name.) tom lane ----- ARPA: lane@ZOG.CS.CMU.EDU UUCP: ...!seismo!zog.cs.cmu.edu!lane BITNET: lane%zog.cs.cmu.edu@cmuccvma "Stupidity is far more dangerous when computer-assisted."