Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bunyip!lance!ptcburp!michi
From: michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Problems with unwanted news groups
Keywords: unwanted news groups, sys file, junk
Message-ID: <368@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au>
Date: 13 Aug 90 06:08:41 GMT
Distribution: news
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation
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Sorry if this has been asked before...

Our feed site sends us some groups we don't want to keep on disk. For various
reasons, we cannot stop them from sending us those groups.

Rather than expiring those groups quickly, I tried to exclude them in the
sys file entry for our site, e.g.:

ptcburp:world,!soc::

The articles for soc now all end up in junk, where they still consume disk
space. Does anyone know how to convince news to throw them into the bit
bucket, rather than moving all these articles into junk ?


					Michi.