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!