Re: Newsgroups files

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 19:45:11 +0100
Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:

2 out of the 3 still have it as moderated. 

 
Do you happen to know whether they honour control articles?
Do they manage their newsgroup list by hand?

No idea.

 
If you know how to contact these 2 news admins who still have
fr.bienvenue marked as moderated, could you ask them?

I could but I don't care enough :) I've got too much other stuff to do
without administering other people's usenet servers.

I bet this is not the only discrepancy in their servers...  Did they
reflect the latest changes in the Big-8?

I expect there are many discrepancies. I couldn't tell you if they have
the Big-8 changes or not. I probably don't myself because I don't run
checkgroups or whatever.

I could try to send a "booster" for the unmoderation of fr.bienvenue
(dating back to 2011!) but I doubt they have the current PGP key of
fr.* (which changed in 2020 as the previous one, unused during
several years, was lost).

I wouldn't bother. Like you say, there's probably more than just that
one group that's out of sync. Given that I have a number of servers
that have the correct name and moderated status for that group, I would
probably pick their reliability over the others.
 



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