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From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
Message-ID: <3939@pkmab.se>
Date: 10 Aug 90 07:50:43 GMT
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In article <1990Aug9.205409.28967@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger) writes:
> It would
>appear to be (diskwise) more convenient to receive the article just
>long enough to batch/compress it, and then kill our copy of it.

How about letting the site that feeds you, batch the groups that you don't
want but your downstream site wants, separately, and address it directly to
that site in two hops, with your site just passing it along without having
to look into it.
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