Re: Faux alt groups

Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> That you are unhappy is not abuse. news.admin.net-abuse.usenet cut from
> crosspost.
> 
> The Doctor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I have been seeing some faux alt newsgroups lately.
> 
> Dude! You are pretending to a be a News administrator! If you recognize
> a froup, it's a froup. If you do not recognize a froup, it's not a
> froup. You are the News administrator. You are literally in charge of
> whatever froups you offer.
> 
> If you both wish to peer, then you both must use a froup's canonical
> name otherwise articles won't land where visible to users. In alt.*, if
> the proponent sent a newfroup message, read that for the canonical
> name if it's not got any major errors in it. In an administered hierarchy,
> consult checkgroups.
> 
>> I wonder if everyone have a synced newsgroups and newsrc and related files.
> 
> .newrc is the list of froups you subscribe to. It's a newsreder file.
> You don't syncronize it! As a user, it's entirely your call what you
> subscribe to.
> 
> If you want to syncronize your newsfroups and active files, obtain them
> from one of your peers. Otherwise, you maintain them yourself as you
> create and remove froups locally.
> 
> If you do not wish to be in charge, then turn in your News administratrs
> credentials.
> 
 >
N A I L E D  I T!