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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Methods for updating a feeds sys file
Summary: IHAVE
Message-ID: <1608@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 89 16:58:17 GMT
References: <1989Nov13.145624.15454@monymsys.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <1989Nov13.145624.15454@monymsys.uucp>, david@monymsys.uucp (David Kozinn) writes:
|  I've recently started receiving a feed of a small subset of all the available
|  news topics. My upstream feed has been very helpful in getting me set up and
|  helping me weed out the groups that I have no interest in. Most of this has
|  taken place by me sending him an updated sys file every few days as I go
|  through the process of eliminating groups from major categories. 
	[  more on this problem  ]

  Have you looked at running IHAVE protocol? Although it's intended for
people who have multiple feeds, it works well in this case. He sends you
an IHAVE for a lot of groups, you select what you want using your sys
file and do SENDME for the stuff you want.

  This lets you add and delete groups pretty freely. You will get some
extra message traffic, but when you get your list settled down you can
update the feed. Or if you may want to expand and don't want to do a lot
of changes at their end, you may want to leave them feeding you a lot of
stuff, and just not ask for it.

  Hint: I did this myself for awhile.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon