Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: newgroup/rmgroup in cnews (vs bnews)
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.082219.2204@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan27.070620.14621@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 08:22:19 GMT

In article <1991Jan27.070620.14621@cmcl2.nyu.edu> rosenblg@acf3.nyu.edu (Gary J. Rosenblum) writes:
>Pardon if this has been asked before, but why in Cnews do the newgroup/
>rmgroup control messages consist of only that one line (ie, rmgroup blah
>says ...), whereas in Bnews, the entire message is posted? ...

The entire message is posted, in the "control" newsgroup, regardless.
The summaries mailed to the administrator are terser, yes, and that may
have been a mistake.  Reworking of certain aspects of that stuff is on
the "to be looked at" list.
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