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From: install@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: discarding unwanted newsgroups
Message-ID: <29@kosman.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Apr-86 00:54:55 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 14 00:54:55 1986
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In article <1296@wcom.UUCP>, frodo@wcom.UUCP (Jim Scardelis) writes:
> 
> 	Here at wcom, we currently receive a full newsfeed. Our downstream
> sites however, do not have the resources to take a full newsfeed, so I
> modified our sys file to not send them the groups they don't want, using
> the ! convention. However, a look at my news log shows a line "newsgroup
> in active, but not in sys", and it sends the article anyway. 
> 
> 	How do I properly cause news 2.10.2 to not send newsgroups?
> 
> 	How do I tell it not to save a given newsgroup here?

As one of Jim's downstream sites, I would also like to know why the
articles which slip through (it is clearly not all of them, or else my disk
would be permanetly overfull) wind up in /usr/spool/news/junk.  These
newsgroups are listed with the ! convention in my 'sys' file too -- I would
want netnews to just throw them away.  Note: Jim and I use exactly the same
line for my site in our 'sys' files.

				Kevin O'Gorman
				...{ihnp4,hjuxa}!wcom!kosman!install