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On Oct 1, 2025 at 10:17:31rC>AM CDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
Two newsgroups claimed to be in a nonexistant top-level a.* hierarchy
and another nonexistant group cut from crosspost.
Technically, it was only two a.* groups that were erroneous. alt.free.nntp exists here and in the active file available from ISC.
For Billy G - a.* shouldn't exist, but you'll find it in a lot of articles, particularly in archives. From my perspective, text articles posted there were
intended to be posted to alt.*.
Some newsreaders abbreviate newsgroups within the UI, which may confuse naive users (Thunderbird displays n.a.misc for news.admin.misc, for example). Most commericial NSPs accept posts with any value in the Newsgroups header and pass
them along.
On instances you are allowing posting, I'd limit accepted newsgroups to what is currently found at https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/active.