Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: sys file entries for CNEWS
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.224950.4653@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 22:49:50 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.170511.6535@st_nik!swindon.ingr.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar18.170511.6535@st_nik!swindon.ingr.com> nik@swindon.ingr.com writes:
>... 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...

I'd be inclined to write that as "all,!soc/all" to avoid potential troubles
with distributions, but yes, that ought to work, apart from the cross-posting
issue you mention.  If it's not working I'd suspect problems elsewhere.
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