CSvax:Pucc-H:acu (12/07/82)
Can just anyone (with the know how and/or root password) send out control messages to create or destroy newsgroups at will? Regardless of the justice or lack thereof inherent in the recent removal of net.trivia et. al., this seems like a very dangerous situation. What happens if the friendly people of "erewhon" (or anywere else) decide that "net.general" should get the axe? I agree with the proposal that only certain sites should be able to create new groups and suggest that these "control sites" should be the only ones allowed to delete old ones (on a global basis) as well. (Although I suppose that "From" addresses could be faked to get around such limitations (sigh), but it seems like a good starting point). Mark Shoemaker