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From: romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b
Subject: simple solution to inet leakage
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Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 22:13:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 22:13:33 1987
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Erik Fair kindly sent me a list of the inet groups.  If there's
sufficient interest, I'll post the list to news.sysadmin; otherwise
I'll just send out copies to those who request them.  Armed with this
list, sys admins can avoid passing inet groups to their downstream
neighbors.

If you don't care about the inet groups at all, you can alias each
of them to "junk", so that they stay in junk once and for all, instead
of seeping downstream to other sites.

If you like to read the inet groups anyway, but shouldn't pass them
downstream, you can alias them to fall under "inet":
	comp.lang.postscript	inet.comp.lang.postscript
If you want to post to such groups, be sure your upstream inet feed
has aliases to transform the names back to a format sanctioned by the
NNTP cabal (:-).

If you're an impoverished downstream site, you can (nicely) ask your
upstream neighbor to implement such aliases.  It sounds so simple there
must be a catch...