Re: Where do I find a newsgroups charter?

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Imran Ghory (imrang@btinternet.com)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 21:57:26 +0100


On 8 Jun 99, at 14:14, Mike Oliver wrote:

> > > Anyone know a URL to find the charter of a newsgroup?
> >
> > For a "Big 8" group, look for archives of news.announce.newgroups.
> > When it's back up, there's one at
> >
> > http://www.faqs.org/usenet/gsearch.html
> >
> > If you're talking about alt.tv.xena, I'm not sure. I don't know
> > nearly as much about group creation in the alt.* hierarchy. Sorry.
>
> Control messages are archived at <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control>.
> For alt.tv.xena there are half a dozen newgroups and boosters in
> <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/alt.tv.xena.Z>, none of them
> containing much in the way of a formal charter.

For just alt.* group,

ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/alt/{Newsgroup name}.z

is faster.

Imran

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