On Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:26:04 -0600 Dan Lester said:
>However, is there any technical, political, or other way to assure that the
>bit.listserv.listname newsgroup dies and disappears?  I'm concerned that if
>it still continues as a home for spam and such that the "bad reputation" of
>the newsgroup members (not just spammers, but a couple of jerks who've been
>dumped from the list for cause.....repeated flagrant violations of
>rules.....) will reflect back on the mailing list, which has a fine
>reputation as the one source for info of the type in the field.


Try posting a note to news.admin.  Tell them you own the listserv feed,
and without it, the group will be left with no messages.  They may
issue the rmgroup command for you (after verifying that the information
is correct).