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In article <821@ulogic.UUCP> hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:

   In article <TRSNYDER.93Jan6143825@vf0031.mcs.drexel.edu> trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder) writes:
   >This seems unacceptable for me personally, when you could drop an unknown
   >number of articles, and a kill file (and a smart control system for becker)
   >will do just as well.

   One difference, Bob.  A kill file will prevent you from seeing the articles,
   cutting anatolia out of the feed will prevent you from wasting time on
   the phone downloading them (assuming you have a UUCP feed).

Right.  I realize this.  But is the volume enough to make it worthwhile to
cut the articles using this method?  I freely admit I haven't checked the
volume, but I would suspect that the amount posted is trivial when compared
with a moderate sized news feed.  Especially if your system can use one file
for all the postings, as UNIX generally can.

I could see using it if all you got were the "afflicted" groups, or a small
set including them.  But for a mid-normal sized feed, I'm not sure it'd be
worth it.

(And to the other person who posted that adding the lines to your sys file
would only check the message id:  Are you sure?  I seem to recall C-news and
INN scanning the path header.  I'm an ex-news admin, and don't have sources
to either handy, or I'd check. :-)

Bob