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Article #4692Re: INN weirdness
From: David Barr
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:54
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 -- System Administrator, Population Research Institute barr@pop.psu.edu A .sig quote is like a summer job, okay for a few months but not much more.
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Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!atlantis.psu.edu!barr From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) Subject: Re: INN weirdness Message-ID: <hj41Hxpsjb@atlantis.psu.edu> Sender: news@atlantis.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute References: <1h5d6dINNpbp@wintermute.phys.psu.edu> <1h5llbINN414@nic.near.net> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 03:54:52 GMT Lines: 19