usenet@cuae2.UUCP (Heiby) (11/23/85)
A new site appears to have come on line recently and has flooded the net with newgroup messages for a bunch of non-existant groups, including net.chess, net.micro.zx, net.movies.sw, net.mail.msggroup, net.micro.432, and net.info-tenews. I never heard of the last one. The others were removed through normal process several months ago. I am issuing rmgroup messages on them all. -- Ron Heiby usenet@cuae2.UUCP (via ihnp4) AT&T-IS, /app/eng, Lisle, IL (312) 810-6109
wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) (11/23/85)
In article <1668@cuae2.UUCP> usenet@cuae2.UUCP (Heiby) writes: >A new site appears to have come on line recently and has flooded the net >with newgroup messages for a bunch of non-existant groups,... I wish it would be more widely publicized that one does not have to use inews -C *AT ALL* to add newsgroups to one's own site. Even inews -C with a local distribution I consider dangerous and prefer to avoid when at all possible. All one has to do is edit a line into the active file (using the lines for other groups as a model) and create a directory. The last can be done for multiple newsgroups by attacking a copy of the active file with an editor. Basically you turn the dots in the newsgroup names to slashes to create a list of directory names. Then if this list is in file FILE you type: mkdir `cat FILE` There are some complications like you have to be sure that before the directory for a subgroup is created the directory for the group that contains it exists, but you should get the idea. -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,philabs,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls