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From: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Unwanted News groups
Summary: It's in the news spool directory, not the news batching directory.
Keywords: excluding groups
Message-ID: <277@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 89 12:47:16 GMT
References: <1470@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Reply-To: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
Organization: Balliffe International, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Lines: 15

In article <1470@bnlux0.bnl.gov>, abrams@cass.amd.bnl.gov wrote:
>Looking at the file /usr/spool/batch/nntp.his_site.edu shows me a list
                                ^^^^^
>of articles bound for his site.  ...  Is there another file which will
>prevent me from asking for unwanted newsgroups when I execute run.nntpxfer
>to get news from his site?

Yes, it's in the news spool directory, usually /usr/spool/news.

It's name is "nntp.REMOTE", where "REMOTE" is the name of the site
you nntpxfer from.

...Sam
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Samuel Lam     <skl@wimsey.bc.ca> or {uunet,ubc-cs}!wimsey.bc.ca!skl