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Started by James Deibele
Sun, 03 Jan 1993 00:23
"Alias" file in C news
Author: James Deibele
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 00:23
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 00:23
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Question: does C news use the "alias" file anymore? Suggestion: I understand that there's probably a performance penalty in having to look at a second file besides active, but it seems like this would be a good place to permanently park a number of groups. I went through and deleted about a hundred groups as either too inactive to bother with or replaced by other groups. It would be nice to put these groups once in a file that C news understands and forget about them. I won't have to try to remember whether alt.some.silly.thing is a new group or just somebody playing with an old dead group. If the performance hit is too bad to use a file other than active, maybe newsdaily could delete references to articles whose newsgroup line is found in "alias". The objection to keeping them as "=something.else" is that some newsreader programs seem to understand the "=" syntax, but others don't. -- jamesd@techbook.COM "2516 newsgroups & nothing on ..." PDaXs gives free access to news & mail. (503) 220-0636 - 1200/2400, N81 Full internet (ftp, telnet, irc) access available. Voice: (503) 223-4245
Re: "Alias" file in C news
Author: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 04:59
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 04:59
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In article <C0952p.1rp@techbook.com> jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:
>Question: does C news use the "alias" file anymore?
No. It never has. (C News is a from-scratch reimplementation, not a
variant of B News.)
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