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From: datpete@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Andersen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Sys file question
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.112306.3072@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: 1 Feb 91 11:23:06 GMT
Sender: datpete@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Andersen)
Reply-To: datpete@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Andersen)
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
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In C-news, is it possible to specify that my own site (ME) wants to receive
an entire news hierarchy (e.g. 'comp'), *except* a particular group (e.g. 
comp.special.group), that I only want to appear in our local database if it 
has distribution 'local' ?

I have tried something like

	ME:comp,!comp.special.group/all::
	ME:comp.special.group/local::

but everything posted locally to comp.special.group seems to go into the local
database, regardless of the distribution.

The reason for this question: I try to gateway a mailing list into a local 
newsgroup (comp.special.group).
When mails come from the mailing list, a small script posts these as articles
to comp.special.group with distribution 'local'.
When a local user posts an article to comp.special.group with distribution
'local', I want the article to go into the local database, and nowhere else.
When a local user posts an article to comp.special.group with a distribution
wider than 'local', I mail it into the mailing list. In this case I don't want
the article to go into the local database, since it will later appear in the 
mailing list, and then be gatewayed into the newsgroup by the script mentioned 
above. 
The reason for the sys-file question is thus that I want to prevent that
locally posted articles appear twice in the newsgroup.

I have loooked at the stuff in the 'contrib' directory in the C-news 
distribution, but I haven't found a solution to this part of the problem.

Any hints ?

Peter Andersen