Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How can I get my feed to send me a subset of the Full News Feed?.
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.162433.24158@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <783@hades.ausonics.oz.au>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 90 16:24:33 GMT

In article <783@hades.ausonics.oz.au> greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) writes:
>Is there any accepted way of providing a list of groups to send/not to send
>other than having a massive sys file entry?. (under C news, B news, anything?).

Unfortunately, basically, no.  About the only consolation is that C News
generally has no limits on line length, which means that it doesn't object
to massive sys-file entries.  It even handles them moderately efficiently.
(This could be improved, and will be, in the next patch or two.)
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