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Article #3353Unsubscribing from newsgroups
From: Peter Hsi
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:39
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:39
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We're using B News 2.11. Earlier this year, I un-subscribed our site from a number of newsgroups in an effort to trim our UUNET bill. However, I just peeked at our log file this morning and it says: [... massive amounts of stuff deleted...] Oct 12 08:26 uunet Newsgroups in active, but not sys Oct 12 08:26 uunet received <1992Oct06.004707.9101@sco.com> ng rec.music.reviews,rec.music.industrial,rec.music.misc subj 'Review: Nine Inch Nails - Broken' from awrc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Al Crawford) Oct 12 08:26 uunet Newsgroups in active, but not sys [... massive amounts of stuff deleted...] Actions I've done to unsubscribe: - inserted an "!" in front of the newsgroup I wish to unsubscribe in "sys" - deleted directories of groups we don't subscribe to any more from /usr/spool/news - there are nothing in those directories. - done nothing with the "active" file What does the log message mean? Are we still recieving articles from these groups? Have I completely/correctly unsubscribe from these groups? The Nutshell book "Managing UUCP and Usenet" offers no further suggestions. What gives?? Please respond by Email and I'll post if others are having the same problem. --Peter Hsi Internet: hsi%netwrx1@uunet.uu.net Open Networks, Inc. Usenet: uunet!netwrx1!hsi Reston, VA USA Phone: (703) 648-0013 "If it ain't source, it ain't soft" -- (who said this first????)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!netwrx1!hsi From: hsi@netwrx1.NW1.COM (Peter Hsi) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Unsubscribing from newsgroups Keywords: active sys log Message-ID: <1319@netwrx1.NW1.COM> Date: 12 Oct 92 16:39:39 GMT Followup-To: poster Distribution: na Organization: Open Networks, Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 30