Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utstat!geoff
From: geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: News software (was: Thoughts on the new-group creation process)
Message-ID: <1989Oct4.234355.3680@utstat.uucp>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto
References: <4365@utastro.UUCP> <34795@apple.Apple.COM> <305@6sigma.UUCP> <1989Oct4.030208.22524@rpi.edu> <1989Oct4.153218.14076@ginger.acc.com> <5654@inco.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 23:43:55 GMT

Dave Mack:
> Wrong, at least in news2.11 and C news. If an article is received with 
> no valid news groups, it goes into junk and isn't broadcast to neighboring
> sites, regardless of the Distribution field.

This is false in the case of C news.  Articles may be filed in the
control or junk pseudo-groups, but that has no effect on their
distribution (see relaynews(8)).  Your active file may be missing some
groups, while your neighbours have those groups in their active files.
If you really want to drop articles in certain groups, and ignoring
cross-posting for now, you must either write "!unwanted.group" in your
sys file subscription list, or you must change the flags field of
"unwanted.group" to "x" (see news(5)).
-- 
Geoff Collyer		utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu