Xref: utzoo news.groups:4720 news.admin:2812 soc.women:11774 alt.flame:2089
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!splut!jay
From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin,soc.women,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Will comp.society.women vanish into the Bit Bucket?
Keywords: suspense and grim foreboding
Message-ID: <545@splut.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 88 03:23:58 GMT
References: <11034@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <537@splut.UUCP> <5833@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
Lines: 52

In article <5833@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> sethg@athena.mit.edu (Seth Gordon) writes:
>jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) in <537@splut.UUCP>:
>>The newgroup for comp.society.women arrived here today. I still think it
>>should be moved somewhere more appropriate, but won't rmgroup it...yet.

(note: was referring to my system only)

>O, no, I beseech Thee!  Most honorable and revered Maynard of the Back
>Bone, leave our poor humble newsgroup in peace!  What, O Great One, can
>the net.womyn and net.alan-aldas do to propitiate Thee?

Backbone? ME??!?!! Uhm, Seth, what have you been smoking? Mine is just a
humble leaf node, down at the farthest reaches of the net; I only feed
one site, and he's running uupc.
If someone can tell me how to do the yeoman service of the backbone
admins with only a PC/AT with 162 MB total disk space (and 20 of that
under PC-DOS), I'll sign up...though a single Courier 2400 won't go very
far...

>How many MIPS must we put at your disposal, that you may forgive our
>grievous violation of the Net Name Hierarchy (for, as it is truly
>written: Comp is Comp and Soc is Soc, and never the twain shall meet,
>lest base anarchy fall upon the Net)?

Oh, I'll settle for a 3090-400E, two full strings of 3380s, a fully
loaded 3745, and 4 3480 tape drives...oh yeah, can't forget the 4248
printer, either.
Still, though, site admins that state explicitly that they don't want
soc on their machines shouldn't have a soc group snuck in under their
noses...

>O Spaf the Important; O Weemba the Obnoxious; intercede on behalf of us,
>your humble users.  O you Members of the Back Bone, masters (and, per
>chance, mistresses?) of the Sacred Arcana of the Net, mitigate your
>wrath, and grant us poor deviates one humble misplaced newsgroup.  Woe,
>woe, woe!

Don't forget "O Jay, the Ignorant Splut."

>But seriously, folks... can the nitnews admins down here set their
>systems to *ignore* rmgroup messages, or at least not make the removal
>automatic?

RTFM. In this case, make sure that MANUALLY is defined in defs.h in the
standard B news software. That will make the system merely request that
the news admin execute the rmgroup.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC...>splut!< | Never ascribe to malice that which can
uucp:       uunet!nuchat!           | adequately be explained by stupidity.
   hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!splut!jay  +----------------------------------------
{killer,bellcore}!tness1!           | Birthright Party '88: let's get spaced!