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[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>> You can't remove a group globally. However, any news feed (news server) can 
>> decide on it's own if they want to carry (subscribe to) a news group. If your 
>> news server does not subscribe to a news group, you cannot see it. 
>
>My ISP (I-cable Hong Kong) doesn't host comp.lang.php. I have no idea
>why...

They don't want to promulgate information about one of the major
security problems in the *nix world :-).

Bill
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