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From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News - x'd newsgroups
Message-ID: <1990Aug9.000510.29387@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Date: 9 Aug 90 00:05:10 GMT
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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 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).

"addgroup alt.bogus x" shouldn't put an entry in the active.times file.
As a workaround, you can delete this entry.
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