Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!watfun!grwalter
From: grwalter@watfun.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: BNEWS messages
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.193747.26361@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: BNEWS acknowledgements
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes)
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <5@binary.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 91 19:37:47 GMT
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I tried mailing my response, but it bounced.

timd@binary.UUCP (Tim Daniels @ Binary Systems) writes:
>It seems that after I recieve my news from my feed, that RNEWS sends back
>acknowledgemnets for each article. Needless to say this really annoys my feed,
>cause they get about 1024 messages a night. I have looked through the software
>and DOC and can't find where it says anything about this.

In their (not yours) sysfile (probably /usr/lib/news/sys) they have line stating
your machine name and what groups they feed you and the command that does the
feeding. The command probably looks like

	uux - -z -r your_feed!rnews

The -z option tells uux to notify them of a successful transfer.
Tell them to remove it and they'll stop getting those acknowledgements.

	fred