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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Moderation/Unmoderation change control messages
Keywords: usenet news moderate newsgroups
Message-ID: <239@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 15 Jul 88 16:51:56 GMT
References: <182@chip.UUCP>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Penn State University
Lines: 21

In article <182@chip.UUCP> mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker) writes:
|Greetings...
|
|Within the past 24 hour period, I have received a flurry of messages changing
|groups from moderated to unmoderated.  Just a bit later I have received 
|messages from another site changing some of these same groups back to
|moderated status.  
|
|What is going on?
|

Someone at nfsun.UUCP messed up and sent out a bunch of newgroup control
messages without the proper distribution line (either company or local)
and some astute people noticed and undid the damage.  Now just *what* is
comp.ibm.binaries.d?

and some astute people noticed and
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