werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (04/05/84)
<I begin to like this bug - results in cute one-liners. please don't kill it> several times in the past, I've seen messages to new groups with a name just one letter different from an existing group. the latest example, which floated just by me, is "net.periph". As "net.periphs" already exists, I begin to wonder. Are there news-versions out there, which will create a new group automatically under some/all conditions? I can't belief that the authors of the articles in question created new groups, it has happened too often already for that.
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (04/05/84)
Yes, there are versions that will automatically create a typo newsgroup. Any version of B news prior to 2.7 (I think) will. A news would too, although it was intended to be run with a complete list of valid groups in the NGFILE, and as long as this list was up to date, there was no typo problem.
alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) (04/05/84)
net.periph is indeed a bad group.
gurr@west44.UUCP (04/12/84)
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Similarly, we have net.unix-wizards and net.unix.wizards - we've only had
three articles in the latter.
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