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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Regional distribution/heirarchy conflict
Message-ID: <2954@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 26 Nov 90 19:28:57 GMT
References: <2751582c.6b52@uop.uop.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <2751582c.6b52@uop.uop.edu> nsayer@uop.edu (Nick Sayer) writes:

| I have not tried:
| 
| foo:world,na,usa,ca,!ca, ...
| 
| (but THAT can't be right, can it?)

  Close. I did this some years ago, but my notes are on the systems I
was fixing... I *think* the incantation is ca,!ca.all but don't flame me
if I haven't remembered it quite right.

  The "one true answer" may be to run dynafeed, and select groups and
distributions individually. This runs up the overhead on your feed,
though.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.