From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 06 2004 - 21:35:37 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Nobody but an *administrator* is _supposed_ to be issuing a control
> message (except in alt.* and free.*, perhaps). Except for cancels.
Oh, in case anyone missed the previous discussion of this, this is not a
general statement about how Usenet works, but rather a statement of
personal opinion by Charles on something where he doesn't get the final
say. (Well, unless it's actually just a meaningless statement trivially
satisfied by declaring anyone who issues control messages for a hierarchy
to be an administrator.) For example, anyone is welcome, so far as I'm
concerned, to issue control messages in the Big Eight provided that they
don't forge group-admin@isc.org.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>