Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News - x'd newsgroups
Message-ID: <1990Aug8.235808.7567@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <10358@brazos.Rice.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 90 23:58:08 GMT

In article <10358@brazos.Rice.edu> cathyf@brazos.rice.edu (Catherine A. Foulston) writes:
>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 really an NNTP problem -- it needs to refrain from listing such
groups as available when they aren't.  The code for NNTP's LIST command
(and friends) needs to be a bit more sophisticated.
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Verne reprint is to a modern SF novel. |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry