Xref: utzoo news.admin:14029 news.software.b:7638 Newsgroups: ba.news,news.admin,news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Just between us Message-ID: <1991May1.211630.442@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Wed, 1 May 1991 21:16:30 GMT References: <1991Apr29.023636.8665@ithaca.uucp> <1991Apr30.001057.4812@sat.com> <1991May01.182617.2687@sat.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article <1991May01.182617.2687@sat.com> lmb@sat.com (Larry Blair) writes: >C News has a separated the distribution from the hierarchy. Unfortunately, >it also continues to support the old ambiguous scheme so it is not clear to >me whether "site:ba,comp,.../!ba.all:" will actually suppress >"Distribution: ba" postings... If you read our wonderful documentation :-), you will find that the old ambiguous scheme is in effect *only* if there is no "/" in the field. However, your incantation isn't quite right; you want to say: site:ba,comp,.../all,!ba:... to pass all distributions except ba. -- And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology "beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry