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From: marka@dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU (Mark Andrews)
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Subject: Re: How can I get my feed to send me a subset of the Full News Feed?.
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Date: 6 Aug 90 14:40:22 GMT
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In article <3372@borabora.omni.com> bob@borabora.omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes:
|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 [...]
|
|Yes.  Send an electronic mail message, or pick up the telephone and
|make a call, to the news administrator of your news feed.  Ask him or
|her to modify that system's sys file to send you only the hierarchies
|and sub-hierarchies that you want.
|
|Note that removing a newsgroup or hierarchy from YOUR sys file just
|sticks all the articles in junk.  To save connect time, CPU time, and
|disk space, you should stop unwanted articles at the source.
|
|There really is still some need for human contact in this electronic
|medium.  Fortunately.
|
|-- 
|Bob Weissman
|Internet:	bob@omni.com
|UUCP:		...!{apple,decwrl,pyramid,sgi,uunet}!omni!bob

Or you can post to news.software.b :-) 

I'm the news admin of the upstream site. Greyham was after someother
means than editing the sys file. Greyham was wanting to exclude some 183
newsgroups/heirachies from a full feed. I'd hate to think what my sys
file would be like if it was done there.

I'd done this sort of thing before so it was no problem, that time it
was to limit the long distance charges (Melbourne to Mackey, that's as
expensive as it comes inside Aus).

A little postprocessing with a shell script before batching works
wonders.

Mark.