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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Rename newsgroups?
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Date: 9 Aug 89 02:25:03 GMT
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Reply-To: Geoff Huston 
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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