From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Re: why the rmgroup net.periph?
Article-I.D.: alice.1402
Posted: Sun Jan 16 10:26:52 1983
Received: Tue Jan 18 05:25:34 1983
References: uw-beave.300

Not coming from here, I can only speculate why net.periph was
rm'ed (if I recall, it was done by mj1!usenet -- care to speak
for yourself?)  net.periph is not a group, it's that simple.
net.periphs (note the s on the end) is the peripheral device
newsgroup.

A note to all you rmgroup weary admin's:  I have been persuaded
(politely, not by any flaming) to stop rmgroup'ing illegitimate
newsgroups until 2.10 comes out, when the problem of them will
be solved automatically (they will just not be created without
the proper control messages in the first place)