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Re: Newsgroup uk.current-events.us-bombing now created
- Subject: Re: Newsgroup uk.current-events.us-bombing now created
- From: Jeffrey Goldberg <{$news}$@goldmark.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:37:26 -0700
- In-Reply-To: <Mpun7.2929$Cn5.2151772@nntp2.onemain.com>
- Newsgroups: uk.current-events.us-bombing
- References: <charter-uk.current-events.us-bombing-20010911161337$1256@harlech.demon.co.uk><Pine.LNX.4.33.0109111058200.1241-100000@lehel.goldmark.private><Mpun7.2929$Cn5.2151772@nntp2.onemain.com>
- Reply-To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey+news@goldmark.org>
On Sep 11, 2001 =O< <o@o.o> wrote
in <Mpun7.2929$Cn5.2151772@nntp2.onemain.com>:
> Jeffrey Goldberg <{$news}$@goldmark.org> wrote:
> > On Sep 11, 2001 Iain Bowen as Control <control@usenet.org.uk> wrote
> > in
> > <charter-uk.current-events.us-bombing-20010911161337$1256@harlech.dem
> > on.co.uk>:
> >
> >> The creation message for uk.current-events.us-bombing has just been
> >> issued.
> Was this newsgroup created just this morning? How did you do it?
I didn't do it. Iain Bowen acting as "control" for the uk.* news
hierarchy issued the appropriate newsgroup creation message with the
appropriate cryptographic signature for "uk control". The established (by
vote) procedures for creating groups in the uk.* hierarchy allow control
or the hierarchy committee to create "current event" newsgroups without
requiring a vote on creating the group. That is what happened.
See
http://www.usenet.org.uk/
for various documents describing group creation in uk.*
One thing to note is that the ability for the group to be availabe on so
many newservers so quickly is a tribute to the fact that the uk.*
hierarchy management is so well regarded that most new server
administrators run "uk" control messages on auto-pilot.
> I couldn't create a newsgroup in peacetime.
Just read uk.net.news.config to see just what most groups go through to be
created.
-j
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