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From: news@brian386.uucp (News Administrator)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How can I get my feed to send me a subset of the Full News Feed?.
Message-ID: <1990Aug06.020843.10532@brian386.uucp>
Date: 6 Aug 90 02:08:43 GMT
References: <783@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <3372@borabora.omni.com>
Organization: McCane Consulting
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In article <783@hades.ausonics.oz.au> greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) writes:
>Is there a "standard" method of getting a feed site to only send a subset
>of a full news feed to us?. We don't want to drop full heirarchys as we
>can in the 'sys' file [...]
>

I got most of this idea from my feed, with Bnews at his site (I think), I
modified the idea for feeding my home site.  He uses a script file which
uses 'sed' to remove unwanted articles.  I used a script sorta like:
	sed -e '/\/amiga\//d' \
	    -e '/\/apple\//d' < togo > new.togo
        mv new.togo togo

This script was called local.procs and placed in the out.going/system
sub-directory.  Then all I had to do was add
	if [ -f local.procs ]
	then
		./local.procs
	fi
to the sendbatches file after the cd to the out.going/system sub-directory.
This is an easy kludge which is pretty quick, and seems to get quicker as
the sys line gets longer.  In the sys file, I now use
system:all
So no special processing is required in 'relaynews'.

	brian