From: krikket@meltdown.chi.il.us (D. 'krikket' Krick)
Newsgroups: chi.general
Subject: Re: chi.test
Date: 7 Sep 92 11:59:58 GMT
Organization: The Meltdown - A Team Star BBS

In article <1992Sep07.010027.24608@vpnet.chi.il.us>, lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us
(Gerry Swetsky) writes:
>In article <krikket.7485@meltdown.chi.il.us> krikket@meltdown.chi.il.us (D.
'krikket' Krick) writes:

>>I'm running an Amiga System, with Dillons UUCP software and Brian Clark's
>>Cnet Shell...  The newsgroups are automatically created because I regularly
>>poll my uunews:junk direcory...  If I didn't then that directory would just
>>grow and grow and grow...

>    Then write a daemon that trims the stupid thing!  As far as I'm
>    concerned, anybody who writes software that creates newsgroups
>    merely because someone somewhere created it somewhere and posted
>    something to it, deserves to be run out of Usenet on a rail.  This
>    is the most irresponsibe piece of programming I've ever heard of!

You're right, I should redo the daemons around here...  I won't bother with
other commenting, since it was done already elsewhere in this thread...

>    Vpnet runs C-news.  We respond to newgroups whether legitimate or
>    not.  However, I'm conscientious enough to check daily and make
>    sure only valid newsgroups get created here.  Remember we're
>    talking about Usenet newsgroups, not alt.
>
>    Isn't there any decent news software around for the Amiga?

There is only one option at the moment, unfortunately.  I'm more unhappy with
it because my damn machine has been giving me "Guru Meditation" errors every
8-12 hours...

>>No, I don't have a newgroup named "junk"...  And yes, newsgroups are created
>>automatically at this end.  
>
>    Wonderful!

Keep in mind when you get a select handful of newsgroups, it's not that bad...
The only non alt hiarchy I carry is rec.arts.sf, and if something illegal were
posted there that would carry over to my machine, I'd notice THAT pretty
quickly!

>>It's not all that irresponsible because there is a
>>filter on the system, so only standard newsgroups will be passed (IE: alt.,
>>rec., talk., etc.)
>
>    However, the newsgroups are still created automatically, right?

Yeah, but see above.

>>And then on the machines I talk to they have a better
>>filter system than I do.
>
>    Right - and "the check's in the mail" and "this won't hurt a bit".

(Whining voice) Well, they do...

>>If you feel like comming up with an alternative for the Amiga that the
>>general public can use, I'll consider it, but...  And I do check my
>>newsgroups file on a regular basis just in case...
>
>    Okay, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.  After all, I haven't
>    found any posts from your site in our junk file.  However, we have
>    found posts from amiserv there.

Thank you, and I'll now plead guilty to attempting to create an illegal alt.
newsgroup... But it wasn't carried anywhere beyond my site (Amiserv caught it)
and was created elsewhere within a week anyways...

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