sethg@athena.mit.edu (Seth Gordon) (06/20/88)
jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) in <537@splut.UUCP>: >The newgroup for comp.society.women arrived here today. I still think it >should be moved somewhere more appropriate, but won't rmgroup it...yet. O, no, I beseech Thee! Most honorable and revered Maynard of the Back Bone, leave our poor humble newsgroup in peace! What, O Great One, can the net.womyn and net.alan-aldas do to propitiate Thee? How many MIPS must we put at your disposal, that you may forgive our grievous violation of the Net Name Hierarchy (for, as it is truly written: Comp is Comp and Soc is Soc, and never the twain shall meet, lest base anarchy fall upon the Net)? O Spaf the Important; O Weemba the Obnoxious; intercede on behalf of us, your humble users. O you Members of the Back Bone, masters (and, per chance, mistresses?) of the Sacred Arcana of the Net, mitigate your wrath, and grant us poor deviates one humble misplaced newsgroup. Woe, woe, woe! ----- But seriously, folks... can the nitnews admins down here set their systems to *ignore* rmgroup messages, or at least not make the removal automatic? -- -- "Where are we going?" "Nowhere." "So what's the rush?" --_The Lost Boys_ -- sethg%athena.mit.edu@bloom-beacon.UUCP / POB 53, MIT Branch, Camb., MA 02139
wisner@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) (06/20/88)
>But seriously, folks... can the nitnews admins down here set their >systems to *ignore* rmgroup messages, or at least not make the removal >automatic? 98% of news administrators do. -- Bill Wisner ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis,rutgers}!killer!wisner
weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) (06/20/88)
In article <5833@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, sethg@athena (Seth Gordon) writes: >jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) in <537@splut.UUCP>: >>The newgroup for comp.society.women arrived here today. I still think it >>should be moved somewhere more appropriate, but won't rmgroup it...yet. >O Spaf the Important; O Weemba the Obnoxious; intercede on behalf of us, From now on I'm calling him "Jay you ignorant splut". Sorry, I couldn't resist.... ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
" Maynard) (06/24/88)
In article <5833@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> sethg@athena.mit.edu (Seth Gordon) writes: >jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) in <537@splut.UUCP>: >>The newgroup for comp.society.women arrived here today. I still think it >>should be moved somewhere more appropriate, but won't rmgroup it...yet. (note: was referring to my system only) >O, no, I beseech Thee! Most honorable and revered Maynard of the Back >Bone, leave our poor humble newsgroup in peace! What, O Great One, can >the net.womyn and net.alan-aldas do to propitiate Thee? Backbone? ME??!?!! Uhm, Seth, what have you been smoking? Mine is just a humble leaf node, down at the farthest reaches of the net; I only feed one site, and he's running uupc. If someone can tell me how to do the yeoman service of the backbone admins with only a PC/AT with 162 MB total disk space (and 20 of that under PC-DOS), I'll sign up...though a single Courier 2400 won't go very far... >How many MIPS must we put at your disposal, that you may forgive our >grievous violation of the Net Name Hierarchy (for, as it is truly >written: Comp is Comp and Soc is Soc, and never the twain shall meet, >lest base anarchy fall upon the Net)? Oh, I'll settle for a 3090-400E, two full strings of 3380s, a fully loaded 3745, and 4 3480 tape drives...oh yeah, can't forget the 4248 printer, either. Still, though, site admins that state explicitly that they don't want soc on their machines shouldn't have a soc group snuck in under their noses... >O Spaf the Important; O Weemba the Obnoxious; intercede on behalf of us, >your humble users. O you Members of the Back Bone, masters (and, per >chance, mistresses?) of the Sacred Arcana of the Net, mitigate your >wrath, and grant us poor deviates one humble misplaced newsgroup. Woe, >woe, woe! Don't forget "O Jay, the Ignorant Splut." >But seriously, folks... can the nitnews admins down here set their >systems to *ignore* rmgroup messages, or at least not make the removal >automatic? RTFM. In this case, make sure that MANUALLY is defined in defs.h in the standard B news software. That will make the system merely request that the news admin execute the rmgroup. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC...>splut!< | Never ascribe to malice that which can uucp: uunet!nuchat! | adequately be explained by stupidity. hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- {killer,bellcore}!tness1! | Birthright Party '88: let's get spaced!