Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!mirror!rayssd!raybed2!linus!philabs!sbcs!bnlux0!abrams From: abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Checkgroups confusion Message-ID: <622@bnlux0.bnl.gov> Date: 21 Sep 88 14:48:02 GMT Reply-To: abrams@bnlux0.UUCP (The Ancient Programmer) Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y. Lines: 43 Please excuse what may be a stupid question, but I'm confused about the status of the checkgroups control message. On about Sep. 13, our site received a Checkgroups message in the news.admin Newsgroup. The header was: ------------------------------------------------------- From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Checkgroups message (with INET groups) Message-ID: <4858@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 12 Sep 88 02:20:15 GMT Expires: 11 Dec 88 02:20:13 GMT Distribution: inet ------------------------------------------------------- Then on the 20th of Sep. we received a checkgroups control message with the following header: ------------------------------------------------------- From: wgh@Grumpy.UUCP (William G. Hutchison) Newsgroups: news.admin.ctl,control Subject: checkgroups Message-ID: <352@Grumpy.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 88 16:00:42 GMT Control: checkgroups Followup-To: news.admin.ctl Distribution: na Organization: UNISYS CS, Blue Bell, PA Lines: 311 Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.edu ------------------------------------------------------- Many newsgroups listed as valid in message #1 were missing in message #2. 1. Which of these is the valid list of legit. newsgroups? 2. Should I not be automatically running the checkgroups control message upon arrival at my site? Any information gratefully accepted. -- INTERNET: abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov BITNET: abrams@bnlux0.BITNET UUCP: ...philabs!sbcs!bnlux0!abrams