Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Unsubscribed newsgroup message from Cnews
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.111417.2221@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 11:14:17 GMT
References: <1991Mar23.231126.4840@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar23.231126.4840@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson) writes:
>Cnews regularly sends me mail stating that gnu.misc.discuss is on the
>"top ten list of unsubscribed newsgroups."  I checked the log files
>and it turns out that it is tossing any article posted to that group
>unless it is crossposted to another newsgroup.
>
>I looked though the docs but didn't find any mention of this problem.
>What the heck is an "unsubscribed newsgroup" and how do I fix this?

See the discussion of "subscriptions" in man/news.5 for details; sounds
like you didn't look through the docs very hard. :-)

What's happening is that the ME line in your sys file says you don't
want that group.
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"[Some people] positively *wish* to     | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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