Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!linus!raybed2!rayssd!anomaly!mpd From: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Cannot Stop batching a newsgroup Message-ID: <195@anomaly.sbs.com> Date: 13 Nov 90 23:40:33 GMT References: <1668@syteke.be> Organization: Small Business Systems, Inc., Esmond, RI 02917 Lines: 22 karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: >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 [example deleted] >and note that to turn off such a subgroup, it must be explicitly >removed with `!'. So, for instance, if I have a site that wants to receive only "comp.unix", I would have to have something like: ...comp.unix,!comp.unix.a,!comp.unix.b... ? Why not: comp.unix,!comp.unix.all ? MD -- -- Michael P. Deignan, President -- Small Business Systems, Inc. -- -- Domain: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com -- Box 17220, Esmond, RI 02917 -- -- UUCP: ...uunet!rayssd!anomaly!mpd -- Telebit: +1 401 455 0347 -- -- XENIX Archives: login: xxcp, password: xenix Index: ~/SOFTLIST --