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From: Makey@Snoopy.Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Regional distribution/heirarchy conflict
Summary: use "ca,!ca.all"
Message-ID: <841@Snoopy.Logicon.COM>
Date: 26 Nov 90 22:30:05 GMT
References: <2751582c.6b52@uop.uop.edu> <2954@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, California
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Bill Davidsen is correct.  Use "ca,!ca.all" in your B News sys file to
send articles with "ca" distribution, but not the ca.* newsgroups.
For some reason probably lost in antiquity, B News sys files use "all"
when they mean "*".

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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