Mad rmgrouper attacks moderated comp.* groups?

[greg@apple2.com]

Pardon the crossposting.  news.admin.net-abuse.usenet is listed because I
suspect a mad rmgrouper, the others as they are the discussion groups
relating to the groups I noticed disappearing.

Is someone rmgrouping moderated comp.* groups?  The following moderated
groups have disappeared from my server:

    comp.sys.mac.announce
    comp.sources.mac
    comp.binaries.mac
    comp.sources.apple2
    comp.society.folklore

Not that many of them had traffic for years.  Dates of last posts as
recorded by Deja.com:

    1999/02/26  comp.sys.mac.announce
    1995/11/27  comp.sources.mac
    1996/01/07  comp.binaries.mac
    1997/02/17  comp.sources.apple2
    1999/07/18  comp.society.folklore

I have no doubt several other moderated comp.* groups were rmgrouped.  It
is very likely the moderated status is what was targeted and not just
certain subhierarchies; comp.binaries.apple2 remains intact and was not a
moderated newsgroup.  Two rec and one alt group which are moderated were
not affected.

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