Following is the newgroup control message for alt.toys.transformers, as
well as two "booster" control messages which were sent four months 
later.  Thank you to Phil Zeman for tracking this down for me from the 
site mentioned below.  [Steve Stonebraker, July 1999]
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>From  ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/alt/alt.toys.transformers.Z


>From bcantric@nyx.cs.du.edu Sat Sep 11 22:15:07 1993
Control: newgroup alt.toys.transformers
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.toys.transformers
Path: uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!bcantric
From: bcantric@nyx.cs.du.edu (Macky Stingray)
Subject: New newsgroup: alt.toys.transformers
Message-ID: <1993Sep12.020324.8440@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 93 02:03:24 GMT
Approved: cantrick@ucsu.colorado.edu
Lines: 16
Xref: uunet control:715903

  The Transformers mailing list is getting huge and hard to manage. So,
after some thought about what to name the newly created newsgroup, the
name ALT.TOYS.TRANSFORMERS was settled upon and is now being created.
 
  This group will cover the Transformers toys, the Transformers comic
books, and even the Transformers animated television series. It will fit 
best in the alt.toys heirarchy, however, because all of the above are
about the toys named "Transformers."
 
our newsgroups files:
 
alt.toys.transformers                For the discussion of the Transformers
                                     toys and related materials.

          -Ben
!

>From news@pencom.com Tue Feb  8 10:56:53 1994
Path: uunet!digdug.pencom.com!pencom.com!news
Date: 8 Feb 1994 09:49:44 CST
From: news@pencom.com
Subject: cmsg newgroup alt.toys.transformers
Control: newgroup alt.toys.transformers
Newsgroups: alt.toys.transformers.ctl
Message-ID: <news-alt.toys.transformers-8-Feb-1994-094944-CST@pencom.com>
Approved: news
Distribution: world
Lines: 2
Xref: uunet control:847458

For your newsgroups file:
alt.toys.transformers	

>From root@netserv.unmc.edu Tue Feb 15 11:35:49 1994
Path:
uunet!chronos.synopsys.com!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.
net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!netserv.unmc.edu!netserv.unmc.edu!roo
t
Date: 15 Feb 1994 10:18:34 CST
From: root@netserv.unmc.edu
Subject: cmsg newgroup alt.toys.transformers
Control: newgroup alt.toys.transformers
Newsgroups: alt.toys.transformers.ctl
Message-ID:
<root-alt.toys.transformers-15-Feb-1994-101834-CST@netserv.unmc.edu>
Approved: root
Distribution: world
Lines: 2
Xref: uunet control:853662

For your newsgroups file:
alt.toys.transformers	toy tranformers