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From: abrams@cass.amd.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: sys file
Keywords: excluding groups
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Date: 8 Sep 89 17:36:09 GMT
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In article <32@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU> rainwatr@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU (Don Rainwater) writes:
>
>	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.
	I would like to exclude whole groups, i.e. !ba.* !ca.* etc.
but my feeding site still ships me those groups and they fill up my
junk directory. I asked that my feeding site News Administrator put
!ba.*,!ca.*, etc into my sys file entry on his site, and he stated the
following:

|	We're not spooling news for you folks anymore - you're using
|NNTP.  NNTP allows you, via judicious editing of the nntp.oursite.edu
|file to control what groups you take from us.  To stop the flow of
|ca, mit, etc  you have a line that looks like:
|
|	!ca.*,!mit.*,!buf.*, etc etc


Looking at the file /usr/spool/batch/nntp.his_site.edu shows me a list
of articles bound for his site.  Editing that file as suggested causes
NNTP to barf.  Is there another file which will prevent me from asking
for unwanted newsgroups when I execute run.nntpxfer from his site?






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