On 18-Sep-1996 (22:54), Leonard Erickson wrote to Lee Kirby:

 LK> This may seem like a silly question, but it's not obvious to me how
 LK> to get GIGO to talk my UUCP host into spooling particular newsgroups
 LK> for me.  I get the feeling MAPPING.CFG plays a role, but everything
 LK> I've tried has me thinking that I not catching on to something. 

 LE> *Nothing* you can do in Gigo can get your host to spool a specific
 LE> newsgroup for you. You have to send *mail* to your host requesting
 LE> changes in the groups they feed you.

Ah...I see.  Is there a standard way to talk to a newserver into spooling news?
I believe my provider uses Taylor UUCP.