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From: cathyf@rice.edu (Catherine A. Foulston)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C News - x'd newsgroups
Message-ID: <10358@brazos.Rice.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 90 20:12:46 GMT
Reply-To: cathyf@brazos.rice.edu (Catherine A. Foulston)
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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As I understand the 'x' feature in C News' active file, adding a group
with x causes articles for that group to be quietly dropped.  This is
good.  But if I addgroup alt.bogus x, then rrn users get asked if they
would like to subscribe to alt.bogus.  This is bad.  If I add a group
with x, there's no point in anyone subscribing, since there won't be any
articles, and I don't want people to be asked anyway, because if I'm not
creating alt.bogus it's probably because I think it's a waste of their
time anyway.
	Have I got something set up wrong, or is this supposed to work
like this?  If this is normal does anybody know a way around it?  Thanks.
Oh yeah, latest C News and nntp 1.5.8 (no readers on the server itself).

	Cathy
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Cathy Foulston + cathyf@rice.edu + Rice University, Network & Systems Support