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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:
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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
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  Then on the 20th of Sep. we received a checkgroups control message with
the following header:
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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
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	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.

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