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Re: C news: annoying crosspostings in local groups. How to fix?

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From: Geoff Collyer
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 03:13
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J.P.M. van der Jagt:
>Question: How can I get Cnews *not* to link incoming articles into general,
>but only locally posted articles.

You can't.  The only good solution is to rename your general group to
something like tudelft.general or tudelft.et.general, which at least
reduces the likelihood of random trash from outside being mistaken for
locally-originated articles.
-- 
Geoff Collyer				world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff
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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: C news: annoying crosspostings in local groups. How to fix?
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Keywords: C news, crosspostings, general
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 03:13:09 GMT
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