The most powerful use of something like ctlinnd is as a simple API to the news server. Since ctlinnd is a standalone program it can be run from a shell scripts, a perl script, or even from another executable. Each program below takes a sinblge groupname as an arguement and removes that group from the server.
More complicated scripts follow the same pattern.
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