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From: nik@st_nik!swindon.ingr.com (Nik Simpson x4333)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: sys file entries for CNEWS
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.170511.6535@st_nik!swindon.ingr.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 17:05:11 GMT
Reply-To: nik@swindon.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph UK Ltd. (swindon)
Lines: 19


	I'nm going for stupid question of the week award,  before anybody
says RTFM,  I have and this is how I understood it,  consider a site
that doesn't wish to be fed the soc hierarchy,  I thought a sys entry
at the feed site like :-

	downstream:all,!soc:F:/usr/spool/news/batch/downstream

	should feed to the site "downstream" all articles except those in the
soc hierarchy.  Obviously articles cross-posted to soc will still get through
if you receive any other matching groups.  However if the newgroups
line in the article only contains soc groups it shouldn't be sent to 
the site "downstream".  The question is,  have I misunderstood something,  or
should I be looking for a problem in my CNEWS installation.
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