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From: rainwatr@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU (Don Rainwater)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: sys file
Keywords: excluding groups
Message-ID: <32@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU>
Date: 5 Sep 89 21:10:36 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati
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	I would like to set up my sys file to exclude most of a
hierarchy (for example, I may want to exclude all alt groups except
alt.sources).  Is it possible to have ...!alt,alt.sources,... in the
sys file, or do I need to list all of the groups to exclude individually
(for example ...,alt,!alt.x,!alt.y)?

	Obviously, it would be better if I could just exclude the whole
hierarchy, then turn on the groups that I wanted to keep, but maybe this
is not possible.