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Hierarchy MENSA

Description: The Mensa Organisation
Status: pgpmanaged
Contact: usenet@newsgate.mensa.org
Administrative group: mensa.config
No URL provided
Key User ID: mensa.config
No key URL provided
Key fingerprint: 52B9 3963 85D9 0806 8E19 7344 973C 5005 DC7D B7A7

Key:

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Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD)

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INN's control.ctl entry: [C News or DNews also available]

newgroup:*:mensa.*:drop
rmgroup:*:mensa.*:drop
checkgroups:usenet@newsgate.mensa.org:mensa.*:verify-mensa.config
newgroup:usenet@newsgate.mensa.org:mensa.*:verify-mensa.config
rmgroup:usenet@newsgate.mensa.org:mensa.*:verify-mensa.config

Actions since a year: none [see more actions]

Newsgroups: [check raw logs if your checkgroups differs from the one below]

mensa.au.announce	Australian Mensa announcements. (Moderated)
mensa.au.events		Australian Mensa events. (Moderated)
mensa.config		Mensa newsgroups config and policy discussions. (Moderated)
mensa.de.announce	German Mensa announcements. (Moderated)
mensa.de.events		German Mensa events. (Moderated)
mensa.sigs.giftedchildren	A forum for parents, teachers, and children. (Moderated)
mensa.talk.misc		General Mensa discussion. (Moderated)
mensa.uk.announce	British Mensa announcements. (Moderated)
mensa.uk.events		British Mensa events. (Moderated)
mensa.us.announce	American Mensa announcements. (Moderated)
mensa.us.events		American Mensa events. (Moderated)

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