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From: jnford@jay.weeg.uiowa.edu (Jay Ford)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: force-feeding
Keywords: single-component groups
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Date: 14 Jul 89 17:41:49 GMT
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I am an unwilling recipient of the "junk" group.  I am running B news 2.11.17
and nntp 1.5.5, with a single nntp feed from uunet.  I have "!junk" on the "ME"
line of my sys file, but the junk articles keep coming in.  Could someone
enlighten me on how to avoid being force-fed.

This brings up a broader issue about group names without "."s in them.  There
seem to be exceptions to the usual handling rules for single-component groups
relative to multi-component groups.  The above problem is an example, and I
think I've seen others.  Is this true, or am I just dazed and confused?


Jay Ford,  Weeg Computing Center,  University of Iowa,  Iowa City,  IA  52242
jnford@jay.weeg.uiowa.edu  or  jnfordpb@uiamvs.bitnet,  319-335-5555