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Article #4717Re: INN placing messages in junk
From: John Grover
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:44
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:44
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In article <1hn7j6INNpva@rodan.UU.NET>, rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz) says: > >In <1hc15hINN4ao@rs6000.bham.ac.uk> G.Simpson@bham.ac.uk writes: >>The messages from group foo.bar appear in the junk file. However, another >>group, say foo.foo may not exist on my system (yet), and i want to see those >>messages in junk, not those from foo.bar which i know i dont want. >You cannot do this. If you want a newsgroup, put it in the active file. >If you don't want a newsgroup, then remove it from the active file. If >you want a group filed in junk, use the x or = flags in the active file >entry. I takes a certain amount of chutzpah to disagree with the author, but Rich, I respectfully disagree. On my system, I get unwanted groups (that is groups not in the active file) in junk. Why? I think because I set the WANT_TRASH variable in config.data to DO. I'm not sure what would happen if I had groups with a 4th field of 'x' in the active file. johngrover -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Grover "When you pray for rain, Computing Center you gotta deal with the mud." University of Maine -- Denzel Washington
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!mars.caps.maine.edu!saturn.caps.maine.edu!maine.maine.edu!jgrover Organization: University of Maine System Date: Monday, 28 Dec 1992 11:44:24 EST From: John Grover <JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Message-ID: <92363.114424JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: INN placing messages in junk Distribution: inet References: <1hc15hINN4ao@rs6000.bham.ac.uk> <1hn7j6INNpva@rodan.UU.NET> Lines: 24