Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!coolidge From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: clarinet?????? Summary: righto Message-ID: <1989Oct29.223201.28609@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 29 Oct 89 22:32:01 GMT References: <331@lawnet.LawNet.Com> <2962@splut.conmicro.com> <1989Oct27.023630.29651@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <14809@bfmny0.UU.NET> Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu Organization: U of Illinois, CS Dept., Systems Research Group Lines: 39 tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: >>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 ... >Except that if any of your feeds start taking ClariNet, they've suddenly >GOT a good reason not to feed you all.* -- namely, all.* now includes >something which you're not paying for and which they're not allowed to >pass on if you ain't. >So ClariNet and "all.*" in the sys file don't mix well. The downstream >site can *accept* all.* if it wants. But if it does so, and if it makes >no attempt to regulate what the feed site sends it -- then it has no >business complaining when clari.* (or leprosy.*) newsgroups start >arriving. That's quite true. We still have no objection to receiving a free ClariNet feed (or anything else) --- but the hypothetical upstream site feeding it to us (no, Brad, we _don't_ have a free Clari feed!) would have a pretty good reason to not give us all, much as we might want it. And if you take all.*, well, you got what you asked for. We take it, and we're not likely to complain about getting the wrong thing. If something shows up that you don't want, cut it out of your active file and ! it out in your sys file --- and tell your feeds not to ship it to you; chances are they'll happily obey your request. We send all.* (or a very close facsimile thereof) to only one of our connections, and they want it. If we did have Clarinet, we'd be pretty careful of it too... --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.