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Article #2386Re: Problems with unwanted news groups
From: Darryl Wagoner
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 1990 12:44
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 1990 12:44
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In article <JGABRIEL.90Aug16174808@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> jgabriel@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Juan Gabriel Ruiz Pinto) writes: >>>>>> On 13 Aug 90 06:08:41 GMT, michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning) said: > >> Our feed site sends us some groups we don't want to keep on disk. For various >> reasons, we cannot stop them from sending us those groups. > > An option is that you tell your news feed just send the > groups you want, the news administrator at your news feed > can add in his sys file, the negations of the groups you This could lead to very large sys entries, which can cause problems. Plus you have to bug your feeder admin to change it any time that you want to add or delete a group. On Cnews, and I beleive on B news, you can change the forth field of the active file to 'x' and it will discard that group. I just found out about it myself when I upgraded to Cnews. Good luck! -- Darryl Wagoner darryl@lemuria.MV.COM or uunet!virgin!lemuria!darryl 12 Oak Hill Road Brookline, NH 03033 Office: 603.672.0736 Home: 603.673.0578
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!decvax.dec.com!zinn!lemuria!darryl From: darryl@lemuria.MV.COM (Darryl Wagoner) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Problems with unwanted news groups Message-ID: <1990Aug22.124401.21389@lemuria.MV.COM> Date: 22 Aug 90 12:44:01 GMT References: <368@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au> <JGABRIEL.90Aug16174808@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> Reply-To: darryl@lemuria.UUCP (Darryl Wagoner) Distribution: news Organization: Shecora Associates, Inc. Nashua, NH Lines: 25