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From: jewett@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Bob Jewett)
Newsgroups: news.software.notes
Subject: Re: NOTES Gurus wanted!!
Message-ID: <64460004@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 89 18:14:58 GMT
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Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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> Another point of concern (at leat for me :-) is that there does not seem
> to be a method for excluding notes from specified "newsgroups".  Since
> notes automatically creates a notesfile for any new group, an article
> posted to "comp.misc" and cross-posted (not using notes :-) to 
> "boston.general" will cause the creation of "boston.general".  OK for the
> first time it happens...I can spot it in nfmaint, kill the notesfile.
> But now I'd like to [define] "boston.general" as a group I never want to
> see again!!  Any way?  Any plans?

Put it in ~notes/invalid as "boston.*".  You can keep such groups from
getting created by making /usr/spool/notes unwriteable by notes/news.
This keeps top-level groups (such as boston.*) from getting created at
all, but does generate error messages each time one arrives.  I have a
filter on the output of the hourly daemon that notices such complaints
and adds a line like "boston.*" to ~notes/invalid automatically.

Bob