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Hello Rick,

Netscape does this to leafnode - and I am never sure why.

When you subscribe to groups in Netscape it seems to tell leafnode that it
is interested in all the newsgroups.

What you need to do - is after you have subscribed to the news groups that
you are interested in - go to /var/spool/news/interesting.groups and delete
any files that are not of interest. It is these files that leafnode
references to work out what groups to fetch. i.e. you should have a file
for each news group you want leafnode to fetch.

Leafnode will automatically expire these groups after 7 days if you have
not read anything from that group.

Once you get Netscape settled in - you will find that leafnode will happily
collect your news if you place your fetch command in your ip-up.local.

No reason why Netscape does this - but I hope it helps.

Thanks,
Col.



Rick Ashton <acservs@hotmail.com> wrote in article
<35f10c92.0@job.acay.com.au>...
> Hello all,
> 
> Please excuse me if I havent found the correct group for this posting, I
> have just set up leafnode 1.4 news server for use as an offline service
to
> read news, I have been through all the readme's etc and all works fine. I
> use a dialup connection so my speed is slow. The problem I have is that
> fetch seems to download news from groups that I havent subscribed to
> (actuallly 100's of groups) this fills up my hard drive with articles
that I
> dont want anyway. I am using netscape 4.05 as my newsreader running on
> redhat 4.0, Can anyone help me with this problem, or direct me to the
> correct newsgroup.
> 
> Thanks,         Rick.
> 
> 
>