Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!sci34hub!gary From: gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups Keywords: Cnews active sys Message-ID: <747@sci34hub.UUCP> Date: 8 Aug 90 16:28:03 GMT References: <1990Aug7.143458.1770@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) Organization: SCI Technology, Inc., Huntsville, Al. Lines: 21 In article <1990Aug7.143458.1770@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> Jeffrey L Bromberger writes: >What is the correct method to pass along news in groups that we do not >wish to keep locally? If there is no line in the active file for the >newsgroup, it gets junked. If the line in the active file has a >trailing 'x', the group is not taken, nor is it passed on. Have I >missed something somewhere? The easiest way I know of is to treat it as a normal group, and run expire on it with -e 1 to clear out everything more than a day old. This means you have 1 days worth of news in each of these groups on your system, but this shouldn't be a very large impact. The articles must be in place for sendbatch to retrieve a copy for the outgoing batch. I don't know of any way to "pass-thru" without actually posting the articles. -- Gary Heston { uunet!sci34hub!gary } System Mismanager SCI Technology, Inc. OEM Products Department (i.e., computers) "The esteemed gentlebeing says I called him a liar. It's true, and I regret that." Retief, in "Retiefs' Ransom" by Keith Laumer.