Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!nirvo!kdg
From: kdg@nirvo.UUCP (Kurt Gollhardt)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: force-feeding
Summary: junk is local
Keywords: single-component groups, junk
Message-ID: <458@nirvo.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 89 23:34:37 GMT
References: <56@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: kdg@nirvo.UUCP (Kurt Gollhardt)
Distribution: na
Organization: Nirvonics Inc., Plainfield, NJ
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In article <56@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jnford@jay.weeg.uiowa.edu (Jay Ford) writes:
>I have "!junk" on the "ME" line of my sys file, but the junk articles keep
>coming in.

The "junk" group is not sent across the network (as such).  It is a special
group generated locally by the news system.  Any article which inews has
trouble dealing with, it posts to the local group "junk", regardless of the
group(s) originally posted to.

Examples of situations which cause this are: the posted newsgroup doesn't
exist in your /usr/lib/news/active file; the posted newsgroup is not
mentioned in your /usr/lib/news/sys file (in the line for your system).

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