Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!coolidge From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: clarinet?????? Summary: Unless you _want_ all! Message-ID: <1989Oct27.023630.29651@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 27 Oct 89 02:36:30 GMT References: <331@lawnet.LawNet.Com> <2962@splut.conmicro.com> Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu Organization: U of Illinois, CS Dept., Systems Research Group Lines: 24 [Apologies for reposting --- first copy was cancelled due to header trouble] karl@MorningStar.Com (Karl Fox) writes: >In article <333@lawnet.LawNet.Com> greg@lawnet.LawNet.Com (Gregory G. Petersen) writes: >>If that is true what is the /usr/spool/news/junk filing up with clari.* files >>for on this system??? We never asked for the stuff and clari. is not >>a usenet hierarchy to my knowledge. >Because your upstream feed allows it in their sys file entry for you. They >either explicitly allow clari.* newsgroups to be sent to you, or (shudder) >they send you all.* (not the best way to set up a sys file). Unless, of course, the site you're feeding explicitly _wants_ all.*. We're one of those. No particular reason _to_ take everything, but no reason not to either, and we've got the resources to do it. At any rate, there are a few of us out here who actually want to get all.*. --John -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John L. Coolidge Internet:coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP:uiucdcs!coolidge Of course I don't speak for the U of I (or anyone else except myself) Copyright 1989 John L. Coolidge. Copying allowed if (and only if) attributed. You may redistribute this article if and only if your recipients may as well.