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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How can I get my feed to send me a subset of the Full News Feed?.
Summary: Ask them nicely.
Message-ID: <3372@borabora.omni.com>
Date: 3 Aug 90 17:29:59 GMT
References: <783@hades.ausonics.oz.au>
Reply-To: bob@borabora.omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Organization: OMNI Solutions, Mountain View, CA
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In article <783@hades.ausonics.oz.au> greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) writes:
>Is there a "standard" method of getting a feed site to only send a subset
>of a full news feed to us?. We don't want to drop full heirarchys as we
>can in the 'sys' file [...]

Yes.  Send an electronic mail message, or pick up the telephone and
make a call, to the news administrator of your news feed.  Ask him or
her to modify that system's sys file to send you only the hierarchies
and sub-hierarchies that you want.

Note that removing a newsgroup or hierarchy from YOUR sys file just
sticks all the articles in junk.  To save connect time, CPU time, and
disk space, you should stop unwanted articles at the source.

There really is still some need for human contact in this electronic
medium.  Fortunately.

-- 
Bob Weissman
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