From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!egb
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Title: new newsgroups and control messages
Article-I.D.: whuxlb.279
Posted: Thu Jun  3 11:28:27 1982
Received: Fri Jun  4 03:55:36 1982

I like the control messages sent to the news administrator
when new newsgroups are created and when someone asks for
my sys or uuname listings. In fact, i like them so much, that
i want to be able to answer them; either in the affirmative
or negative. I want to be able to say yea or nay whether some
arbitrary person can request my uuname or sys listing AND
whether a new newsgroup is created. They should not be automatically
created on my machine. A simple mail response format like
	^newgroup=net.suicides yes
would do the trick. (Note, the carot above is a RE symbol.)
Since most modern mail pgms (even mine which is a modified 4.0
mail command) can answer mail, this would be an interactive
response and would happen quickly. A rather simple program
run by the cron command could read "usenet"'s mail every day
and execute the commands. In fact, this could be generalized
to accept other system administration commands.
	^uuname to x/y/z/presley no
	^sys to harpo yes
	^removegroup net.suicides yes
et cetera. Comments?