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From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cannot Stop batching a newsgroup
Message-ID: <KARL.90Nov9225504@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 90 03:55:04 GMT
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jim@syteke.be writes:
   The problem is that I want to stop sending one of the
   newsgroups (comp.sys.amiga.games ) to my home system and edited the
   sys file to remove any reference to that group.

   belami:world,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga,\
      comp.sources.amiga,comp.binaries.amiga,comp.sys.att,\
      to.belami:F:/usr/spool/batch/belami

You are working at the problem too hard in the sys file.  A reference
to any given group implies all that group's subgroups, too.  An easier
sys line to do the same thing for you would be

belami:world,comp.sys.amiga,!comp.sys.amiga.games,\
   comp.sources.amiga,comp.binaries.amiga,comp.sys.att,\
   to.belami:F:/usr/spool/batch/belami

and note that to turn off such a subgroup, it must be explicitly
removed with `!'.

--karl