Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!decwrl!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!know!ladcgw.ladc.bull.com!melb.bull.oz.au!sjg From: sjg@melb.bull.oz.au (Simon J Gerraty) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: C news sending newsgroup junk! Message-ID: <1991Jan16.234551.22017@melb.bull.oz.au> Date: 16 Jan 91 23:45:51 GMT Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Australia. Lines: 49 This problem has started only recently. I noticed that the amount of news being shipped to one of my feedees (zen) had increased dramatically. I had recently changed the sys entry (changed comp.sources.unix to comp.sources). I have noticed that articles from NEWSARTS/junk were being sent to zen. Here is zen's entry in NEWSCTL/sys I have only broken it into multiple lines (incase it broke something as it was). # # ACSnet feeds # zen:!all,!all.all,control,news,gnu,aus.sources,aus.archives,aus.acsnet,\ aus.netstatus,aus.aarnet,aus.auug,aus.general,aus.jobs,aus.sun-works,all.tex,\ comp.emacs,comp.sources,alt.sources,all.sun,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,\ comp.unix,!all.aix,!all.aux,!all.ultrix,!bull,!bull.all/world,mel,vic,aus:f: It is quite long (it is supposed to be a limited feed :-) Is it too long perhaps? The !all,!all.all was an attempt to remove junk/* from the feed. Here is the tail of the current NEWSARTS/out.going/zen/togo ** /usr/spool/news/comp/unix/aix/1267 1048 /usr/spool/news/alt/sources/wanted/186 1361 /usr/spool/news/comp/unix/sysv386/3186 1627 /usr/spool/news/comp/unix/shell/959 1352 /usr/spool/news/comp/unix/programmer/697 1950 /usr/spool/news/comp/unix/wizards/449 1719 /usr/spool/news/comp/lang/c/3477 1018 /usr/spool/news/comp/unix/sysv386/3188 1535 ** /usr/spool/news/comp/unix/aux/994 1027 ** /usr/spool/news/unix-pc/general/498 1035 /usr/spool/news/comp/unix/sysv386/3189 1891 /usr/spool/news/comp/lang/misc/953 13869 ** /usr/spool/news/junk/9472 1187 /usr/spool/news/comp/sources/bugs/224 36726 The lines I have flaged with ** should _not_ be there. Yes the tail of togo was written after the sys file. I am running C News patched to 7-Sep-90 on a Bull DPX/2-340 running System V R3 -- Simon J. Gerraty #include