On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:10:14AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:39:06AM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > There is usually a one-line description of a newsgroup which is > > displayed beside one's personal list of subscribed newsgroups. It > > gives a very short summary of what the newsgroup is supposed to be > > about. If linux.debian.user had the description, "Read-Only. Please > > subscribe to mailing-list to post", or some such, this would do the > > trick I think. This is maybe what Karsten was referring to when he > > mentioned that "newsgroup descriptions" are the proper repository for > > such a message. (I just thought of this. I'll ask him in a sec. I > > was trying to think what he meant by that.) > > That's what Karsten meant, however, considering how many servers > listen to newgroup messages but not rmgroup messages or description > changes, it's pretty safe to assume that the description is set in > stone at this point.
I didn't think there even was a control message for description changes, actually. AFAIK you have to contact newsmasters individually, which seems like a doomed enterprise. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
