Re: [Pan-users] delete deleted groups?

[Duncan]

David Melik posted on Fri, 22 Sep 2017 07:32:20 +0000 as excerpted:

> On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 07:23:13 +0000, David Melik wrote:
>> I'd subscribed to several old Usenet alt.* groups now apparently
>> deleted from the newsserver (Eternal September)... can't Pan delete
>> deleted groups when the groups list is refreshed, or is there at least
>> another option?
> 
> Okay, I was wrong, just forgot you can't put a space in a list of
> multiple groups to post to.  Maybe alt.* doesn't get deleted.  That
> server deleted one of the soc.* groups in the main official list.  In
> relation to this topic, where is that list now... on some FTP site? (I
> recall)  I.e., the list of groups closest to what the majority of
> newsservers carry (since most omit some alt.*, or some they don't think
> were created right, or they may carry others that most servers deleted.)

I don't know about an official list, since many of the groups I've been 
interested in are unofficial in any case (alt.*, plus before I switched 
to Linux at about the turn of the century, the microsoft groups, and 
since then, the gmane server specific gmane groups), but most NSPs (news 
service providers) will have a publicly available (on the web) list of 
the groups they do carry, in addition to the newsgroup list fetchable via 
nntp once you're actually authorized to use their servers.

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