From: Jonathan Grobe (grobe@worf.netins.net)
Date: Thu Nov 18 1999 - 12:17:09 CST
Where exactly are control.newgroup, control.rmgroup... discussed in this
draft? The only place I see refers to "used as pseudo newsgroups by many
serving agents" in the section in the Newsgroups header where newgroups
names beginning with control are forbidden. It is not clear at all what
this pseudo newsgroup does and thus why you could ask for an "explicit
feed of control.newgroup"
Similarly as to the suggestion to use comp.control.
Could you add some language?
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> In <7T0mRCe1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes: > > >I certainly want to see all newgroups in comp.*, even if I do not have a > >full comp.* feed. > > OK, that is a new problem, which we can discuss, though I do not see any > simple solution, and some people seem not to want the feature anyway. > > It would arise, in particular, if some new group suddenly created a > brand-new sub-hierarchy of comp.*, and in such a rare situation one might > expect the issuer to seed the Newsgroups header with a few carefully > selected 'pointers'. > > Another way might be to ask for an explicit feed of 'control.newgroup' (I > imagine it would work without any bother). In fact, that is the _only_ way > to do it if you are using a suck feed (as I am). > > -- > Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ > Email: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl > Voice/Fax: +44 161 437 4506 Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. > PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 >