Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
Message-ID: <1990Aug9.152342.29200@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug7.143458.1770@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> <747@sci34hub.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 90 15:23:42 GMT

In article <747@sci34hub.UUCP> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>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's comments are phrased in terms of B News, but the situation is
similar for C News.  The articles have to exist on your system to be passed
on, although you can set a short expiry for them in explist.  In C News (at
least) there is one further wrinkle, however:  an article in "junk" can be
passed on, because relaying and filing are semi-independent operations, so
an unknown newsgroup can go into "junk" and still go on to your neighbors.
This isn't a wonderful idea on a routine basis, though, as the stuff is
*still* there on your system, and it runs the "junk" article numbers up
awfully quickly.
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It is not possible to both understand  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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