Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Sys file question
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.164242.29384@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Feb1.112306.3072@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 1991 16:42:42 GMT

In article <1991Feb1.112306.3072@daimi.aau.dk> datpete@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Andersen) writes:
>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' ?

No; the distribution subfield of the ME line is ignored, as documented
in news(5).
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