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From: news@m2xenix.UUCP ( randy)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Preventing storage waste by crossposted messages
Message-ID: <106@m2xenix.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 15:48:50 GMT
Reply-To: news@m2xenix.UUCP (News Administrator - randy)
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Organization: Oregon Software, Portland Oregon US
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I admin a small system with a selective newsfeed.  E.g.  I want to receive
comp.lang.modula2 but not comp.lang.pascal.  Unfortunately, it seems that when
someone out there in netland posts a message to both groups, I store two copies
of the message.  rn is kind and only shows one, but the directory is there for
the unsubscribed group and it has the message in it.  As I run a looong expire,
this eats disk.

As I subscribe to a limited selection of groups, having !comp.lang.pascal (and
zillions of other groups) in my /usr/lib/news/sys seems like a neverending
maintenance task.  I am sure there's a normal accepted practice to accomplish
this (or better yet, I have misunderstood something somewhere), so please let
me in on the secret.
-- 
Randy Bush {..!mcvax!uunet,..!tektronix,..!sun!nosun}!oresoft!m2xenix!news