Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: force-feeding Message-ID: Date: 14 Jul 89 21:13:21 GMT References: <56@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: na Lines: 21 In-reply-to: jnford@jay.weeg.uiowa.edu's message of 14 Jul 89 17:41:49 GMT In <56@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jnford@jay.weeg.uiowa.edu (Jay Ford) writes: JF> I am an unwilling recipient of the "junk" group. I am running B JF> news 2.11.17 and nntp 1.5.5, with a single nntp feed from uunet. JF> I have "!junk" on the "ME" line of my sys file, but the junk JF> articles keep coming in. Could someone enlighten me on how to JF> avoid being force-fed. If you don't want articles in junk, run a cron job to take care of it. The articles which appear in junk are due to groups which are being passed to you under valid distributions but for which you don't have an active file entry. For example if I have soc.singles.nice rmgrouped (as it should be) and I am getting a soc feed from a site which is accepting and transmitting soc.singles.nice, then any articles for that group which pass through my feed site will end up in junk on my own machine. In this regard junk is very handy in spotting problems from day to day as far as a missed {new,rm}group or a change in a sys file entry. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))