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From: geoff@athena.mit.edu (Geoff Collyer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cannot Stop batching a newsgroup
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Date: 10 Nov 90 04:32:39 GMT
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karl kleinpaste:
>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

Indeed, assuming that one really wants all the amiga groups but
comp.sys.amiga.games, one could abbreviate this further to

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