Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!wugate!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: Rename newsgroups? Message-ID: <8908081221.AA00795@uunet.uu.net> Date: 9 Aug 89 02:25:03 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS DiscussionReply-To: Geoff Huston Lines: 27 In connection with renaming newsgroups... The solution as posted is about the only way to do it properly.. i.e.: >> creating an alias that maps to >> old group to the new group in NEWS.ALIASES and then doing: >> >> NEWS> CREATE NEWSGROUP new.group/LOCAL >> NEWS> ADD FILE/RETRY NEWS_DEVICE:[old.group]*.ITM >> NEWS> DELETE NEWSGROUP old.group The reason why you have to go this long way around is to alter the text files in the newsgroup such that the Newsgroups: header line reflects the name change. However there is a faster, dirtier method in code which involves modifying the newsgroup record by altering the newsgroup name (thereby binding the newsgroup internal number to a new name) and renaming the .itm files from the old directory into the new directory. Now is the lack of RENAME a REAL problem?? (I ask this cause I must admit that I don't see the need for it myself, but will do something in response to a critical mass of deperate pleas!!) Geoff Huston gih900@csc.anu.oz.au