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Re: INN weirdness

#4692
From: David Barr
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:54
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In article <1h5llbINN414@nic.near.net> anselmo@nic.near.net (Ed Anselmo) writes:
>Ken Hornstein writes:
>> [ INN is forwarding this article despite attempts in the newsfeeeds
>> file to limit its propagation ]
>
>From the innd(8) man page:
> [ ... ]
>Your wildcard entry is causing the newgroup to propagate offsite.
>Adding "!control" to your newsfeeds entry should fix things.

	This seems rather odd that INN works like this.  I mean,
in what circumstanses would you want not to feed a site a heirarchy
of newsgroups, yet pass control messages for that heirarchy?  Why should
a wildcard entry cause such behavior?

--Dave
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Subject: Re: INN weirdness
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